Shipping: Exhaust Emissions
Transport
Steve Brine (Winchester, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what his policy is on ratification of the International Maritime Organisation MARPOL Annex VI legislation to reduce harmful emissions from ships.
Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon, Conservative)
The UK has already acceded to the Protocol of 1997 to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships 1973-78, commonly known as MARPOL, which added Annex VI to the Convention.