Boating: Accidents

Department for Transport written question – answered at on 16 October 2018.

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Photo of Karl Turner Karl Turner Shadow Minister (Transport)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2018 to Question 170303 on Boating: Accidents, if he will publish the data held by the Department on the number of incidents involving a fatality where alcohol was believed to be a factor.

Photo of Nusrat Ghani Nusrat Ghani Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport), Assistant Whip (HM Treasury)

Since January 2016, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has recorded data taken from Coroners’ Reports that are in the public domain about boating accidents involving a fatality and where the Coroner has concluded that alcohol was a factor.

Figures held by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency are as per table below

Total Number of Boating Fatalities

Those Involving Alcohol

2016

8

1

2017

8

5

No figures are yet available from Coroners’ for 2018.

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