Gregory Campbell – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2016-01-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency on staffing levels at coastguard stations in the Irish Sea.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The new National Network for Her Majesty’s Coastguard became fully operational in December 2015.

Coastguard centres within this network do not have fixed geographic boundaries; the network enables workload and incidents to be managed on a national rather than centre-by-centre basis. Workload is moved around the network to balance local demand against a national workforce.