At a joint hearing of parliament’s transport and business select committees last week, MPs heard from a range of stakeholders involved in the dispute, including P&O Ferries’ chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite, P&O Ferries parent company DP World, general secretary of the RMT union Mick Lynch and both legal and employment specialists.
Transport minister Robert Courts and business minister Paul Scully also gave evidence on behalf of their respective departments.
It comes after P&O Ferries on 18 March sacked the best part of 800 UK seafarers and replaced them with foreign workers paid below minimum wage.
