Asked by: Stephen O'Brien (Conservative - Eddisbury)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what monetary thresholds were applied to the cost-per-quality adjusted life year quoted in the evidence submitted as part of the Health and Safety Executive's work with the Inter-departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008.
Answered by Mike Penning
I refer my Rt. Hon. friend to the Written Answer I gave him on 2 July 2014 Official Report, col 643w.
HSE does not apply cost-per-quality adjusted life year (QALY) thresholds. In the Regulatory Impact Assessment described in the evidence submitted by HSE to the Inter-Departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008, which is published in the Library, HSE used a value of £42,000 per QALY to estimate the benefits of the intervention. These were compared against the expected costs of the intervention in order to assess the potential net benefits to society.
Asked by: Stephen O'Brien (Conservative - Eddisbury)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measures of the value of life and health were included in the evidence submitted as part of the Health and Safety Executive's work with the Inter-departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008.
Answered by Mike Penning
I refer my Rt. Hon. friend to the Written Answer I gave him on 2 July 2014 Official Report, col 643w.
HSE does not apply cost-per-quality adjusted life year (QALY) thresholds. In the Regulatory Impact Assessment described in the evidence submitted by HSE to the Inter-Departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008, which is published in the Library, HSE used a value of £42,000 per QALY to estimate the benefits of the intervention. These were compared against the expected costs of the intervention in order to assess the potential net benefits to society.
Asked by: Stephen O'Brien (Conservative - Eddisbury)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the explicit monetary value per quality-adjusted life was in the context of Workplace accidents and regulation, as quoted as part of the Health and Safety Executive's submission to Inter-departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008.
Answered by Mike Penning
In response to a review of departmental valuation practices conducted for the Interdepartmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health in 2008, HSE submitted a summary of a Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) of the Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005. In this appraisal, HSE applied a value of £42,000 per quality adjusted life year (2005 prices), derived from the Department for Transport's Value of a Prevented Fatality (VPF) (£1.4 million in 2005), to assess the health benefits of reduced noise exposure at work. This value was derived specifically for the appraisal of the Noise at Work regulations. The full RIA is published on the HSE website (http://www.hse.gov.uk/noise/noise.pdf).
HSE routinely applies the VPF, with adjustment, in an annual report of the costs of work-related injuries and ill health. The most recent report, Costs to Britain of workplace fatalities and self-reported injuries and ill health, 2010/11, is published on the HSE website (http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/pdf/cost-to-britain.pdf). An accompanying methodology report describing HSE's current approach to valuing the impacts of work-related injuries and ill health is also available on the HSE website http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrhtm/rr897.htm.
Asked by: Stephen O'Brien (Conservative - Eddisbury)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Health and Safety Executive's submission to the Inter-Departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review and evidence submitted to the series of interviews with his Department's staff conducted by researchers from the University of Leeds in 2008.
Answered by Mike Penning
The submission will be placed in the Library shortly.
Asked by: Stephen O'Brien (Conservative - Eddisbury)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in which circumstances he uses a calculation of the (a) value of preventing a fatality, (b) willingness to pay and (c) cost-per-quality adjusted life year approach to quantify the value of a policy intervention; what other tools he uses to quantify the benefit of a policy intervention; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Esther McVey
The Green Book and associated supplementary guidance is publicly available on the Treasury web site. It sets out a range of approaches and methods that may be appropriate in a number of different appraisal circumstances.