The British government is set to double the amount of funding support for cadet training in the UK, the UK’s Maritime Minister has said.

Support will be increased to £30m ($42.4m) from the current £15m under the UK’s Support for Maritime Training (SMarT) imitative.

Maritime Minister Nusrat Ghani said the move would enable the annual intake of SMarT cadets to rise from 750 to 1,200.