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Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 208726, tabled on 9 September 2014

Question

Steve Rotheram
Labour
Liverpool, Walton
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full-time Health and Safety Executive officers were employed to monitor asbestos removal in each month since May 2010.

Answer

Mr Mark Harper
Conservative
Forest of Dean
Commons

Answered on

12 September 2014

The information requested is not held. All HSE construction inspectors are trained to enforce the management and control of asbestos by duty holders and routinely deal with asbestos issues in their everyday work. The majority of construction inspectors are further trained to inspect notified licensed asbestos removal work. The table provides the average number of full-time equivalent operational inspectors who visited construction sites on a day-to-day basis for the years 2010/11 to 2013/14.

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

147

141

137

129

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