Written Question
Wednesday 13th February 2019
Asked by:
Martin Vickers (Conservative - Brigg and Immingham)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment the Government has made of levels of compliance with health surveillance regulations by the construction industry.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has not specifically assessed the construction industry’s overall level of compliance with health surveillance regulations. HSE focuses its occupational health strategies and interventions at the most significant causes of ill-health to make sure duty holders are adequately managing and controlling health risks at source. Health surveillance is one part of a health risk management system, and HSE’s assessment of duty holders’ health surveillance arrangements will reflect the risks involved, for example, HSE evaluates an applicant’s arrangements for statutory medical examinations as part of asbestos license applications. HSE also works with the wider construction industry to improve the industry’s occupational health performance across Great Britain.
Written Question
Wednesday 13th February 2019
Asked by:
Martin Vickers (Conservative - Brigg and Immingham)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people die from occupational diseases by sector each year.
Answered by Sarah Newton
There are currently an estimated 13,000 deaths each year linked to past exposures at work, primarily to chemicals and dusts. Approximately 5,000 of these deaths are due to asbestos-related cancers, a further 4,000 due to other occupational cancers and the remainder due to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and other respiratory disease.
As these figures are estimated from different sources of epidemiological information it is not possible to break the overall total down by industry sector. However, earlier research commissioned by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) into the burden of occupational cancer estimated that of the 8,000 cancer deaths in 2005, approximately 3,700 were attributed to exposures in the construction industry; 2,200 to exposures in the manufacturing, mining, quarrying, electricity, gas, and water industries; 2,000 to exposures in the service industry, and less than 100 to exposures in agriculture, hunting, fishing and forestry.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Jan 2019
Universal Credit: Managed Migration
"We must not lose sight of the fact that inevitably there are problems during the transition phase, but I draw the Minister’s attention to an email I received yesterday from Brian Herzog, one of my constituents, who wrote that
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 05 Feb 2018
Oral Answers to Questions
"Last month, I visited Grimsby jobcentre, which serves my constituency, and it is very clear that the staff are handling the changeover to universal credit very efficiently. Will the Secretary of State join me in complimenting the staff, including the work they do in motivating claimants and improving their self-confidence …..."Martin Vickers - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 18 Dec 2017
Oral Answers to Questions
"3. What progress has been made on implementing the recommendations of his Department’s report, “Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families”, published in April 2017. ..."Martin Vickers - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 18 Dec 2017
Oral Answers to Questions
"I thank the Minister for her reply. As she will know, working households in coastal communities such as Cleethorpes face particular difficulties. There is much low-paid work, but not much to encourage young people to stay there. What additional support can she offer to those sorts of communities?..."Martin Vickers - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 27 Mar 2017
Oral Answers to Questions
"I am currently dealing with two constituency cases in which old people have been robbed of their life savings. In both cases, they have been disappointed with the police response. Will the Minister’s cross-departmental work include contact with the Home Office and individual police forces to ensure that more work …..."Martin Vickers - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 May 2016
Oral Answers to Questions
"I recently met Nick Gregory and his team at Grimsby Jobcentre, which serves my constituency. They are doing excellent work in getting disabled people and those with learning difficulties back into work. Will the Minister enlighten us on what further initiatives are planned?..."Martin Vickers - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Sep 2014
Oral Answers to Questions
"15. What assessment he has made of recent trends in employment in (a) North Lincolnshire and (b) North East Lincolnshire local authority areas...."Martin Vickers - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Sep 2014
Oral Answers to Questions
"I thank the Minister for her reply and for her visit to my constituency a few weeks ago. Does she agree that it is not just Government policy that is leading to the fall in unemployment, but the excellent work that is done at jobcentres, such as the work that …..."Martin Vickers - View Speech
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