Treasury written question – answered at on 28 January 2013.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer
(1) with reference to the Oxford Economics report for Maritime UK on the economic impact of the UK Maritime Services Sector published in December 2012, what proportion of the estimated £2.7 billion contribution to the Exchequer from the maritime services sector in 2011 was from (a) employees' earnings, (b) seafarers' earnings and (c) maritime financial service companies;
(2) what the total direct contribution to the Exchequer was of (a) maritime sector employees' earnings, (b) seafarers' earnings, (c) maritime financial service companies and (d) other maritime industry categories in each year since 2000-01;
(3) what the total contribution to gross domestic product was of (a) the maritime services sector, (b) the shipping industry and (c) maritime financial services in each year since 2000-01.
The report produced by Oxford Economics for Maritime UK, ‘The economic impact of the UK Maritime Service Sector’, estimates that in 2011 the Maritime sector is directly responsible for 165,400 jobs in the UK, made a £13.8 billion direct value-added contribution to GDP and generated £2.7 billion in tax receipts.
The Treasury does not currently have access to a further breakdown of these figures or a breakdown of the data back to 2000-01.
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