Nusrat Ghani corrected a written answer on Offshore Fixed Structures: North Sea

23 March 2018 · Commons written answer · Department for Transport

Karl Turner (Labour, Kingston upon Hull East) asked written question 132874 on 15 March 2018. Joseph Johnson answered on 19 March 2018 for the Department for Transport, and Ms Nusrat Ghani corrected the answer on 23 March 2018. The corrected text no longer gives the figure 10,000. Altogether 116 words differ between the two versions.

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance the Maritime and Coastguard Agency provides on the decommissioning of (a) semi-submersible drilling rigs and (b) other commercial vessels deployed in the North Sea oil and gas industry.

Original and corrected answer

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Original	Corrected
The ~~trial of 10,000 26-30 railcards is an industry-led initiative~~ to ~~gather evidence~~ and to inform discussions between Government and industry about roll-out of the railcard. Delivery of the trial launch, including sales of the railcard, was led by Rail Delivery Group and it was their digital systems that handled transactions and enquiries on the day.	Decommissioning and disposal of semi-submersible drilling rigs and commercial vessels currently falls under the scope of legislation and guidance administered by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The Government will be implementing Merchant Shipping legislation to introduce specific Ship Recycling Regulations later this year with the regime entering into force in December 2018. A Maritime and Coastguard Agency guidance package will accompany this legislation.

Original

Corrected

The ~~trial of 10,000 26-30 railcards is an industry-led initiative~~ to ~~gather evidence~~ and to inform discussions between Government and industry about roll-out of the railcard. Delivery of the trial launch, including sales of the railcard, was led by Rail Delivery Group and it was their digital systems that handled transactions and enquiries on the day.

Decommissioning and disposal of semi-submersible drilling rigs and commercial vessels currently falls under the scope of legislation and guidance administered by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
The Government will be implementing Merchant Shipping legislation to introduce specific Ship Recycling Regulations later this year with the regime entering into force in December 2018. A Maritime and Coastguard Agency guidance package will accompany this legislation.

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