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Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 13083, tabled on 22 October 2015

Question

Mr Nigel Evans
Conservative
Ribble Valley
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what sanctions the HSE can place on companies breaching gas safety.

Answer

Justin Tomlinson
Conservative
North Swindon
Commons

Answered on

27 October 2015

Sanctions that can be put in place by HSE range from verbal and written advice, improvement notices which require companies to take specified measures to achieve compliance and prohibition notices that stop companies from carrying out specified activities. Ultimately there is prosecution where unlimited fines are available in the Courts. (13083)

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