Bill Esterson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Bill Esterson on 2014-04-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many coastguard operations room staff have applied for voluntary redundancy.

Stephen Hammond

As at 14 April 2014, of those Coastguards currently working in a Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre, 86 have applied for both new posts in the new coastguard structure and voluntary redundancy, 140 have applied for voluntary redundancy only and 128 have applied for a new post in the new coastguard structure only.