Piracy
Transport
Caroline Dinenage (Gosport, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what discussions she has had with ministerial colleagues on measures to safeguard UK shipping against piracy.
Michael Penning (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Roads and Motoring), Transport; Hemel Hempstead, Conservative)
I sit on the ministerial working group which leads the Government's counter-piracy work and considers measures to safeguard British shipping from acts of piracy. This includes military operations, prosecution of pirates in neighbouring states, and the Government's policy on the use of private armed guards, on which my Department has led.