Ian Lavery – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Lavery on 2015-10-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, by what criteria he judged the success of London International Shipping Week (LISW) 2013; and what criteria he used to judge the success of LISW 2015.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The success criteria used to judge the success of London International Shipping Week, both in 2013 and 2015, were:

1. To establish LISW as a major global shipping event through which to showcase the UK’s maritime and marine sectors;
2. To attract the attendance of senior international maritime leaders and influential stakeholders to enable the UK maritime sector and HMG to engage effectively and promote the UK’s maritime offering;
3. To deliver a series of high quality events focussing on promoting London’s maritime offering in 2013 and “maritime thought leadership” in 2015;
4. To enable high level interaction between senior HMG and UK industry with international maritime stakeholders reinforcing the fact that the UK remains a major maritime nation; and
5. To raise the profile of the UK maritime sector both internationally and domestically.