Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many visits have been carried out by the Health and Safety Executive in each month since March 2020 to inspect whether workplaces were covid-secure; and how many of those visits in each month were carried out in each (a) region and (b) nation of the UK.

Since March 2020, HSE has recorded a total of 10045 visits to workplaces on Covid-19 security. The visits include spot checks specifically on Covid-19, inspections as part of an investigation into a concern raised about Covid-19 and inspections and investigations into other matters at which Covid-19 is also checked.

Table 1 - Breakdown of visits by month:

Table 2 - Breakdown of visits by country:

Note: The health and safety at work regulator for Northern Ireland is the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) which is not a part of HSE. Figures given are therefore for visits in England, Scotland and Wales.

Table 3 Breakdown of visits by region.

Notes

i. Data is not available by region for Wales and Scotland.

ii. All figures were extracted from HSE’s live database and provide the picture as at 27^th October 2020.