Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Health and Safety Inspectors (a) are employed by the Health and Safety Executive and (b) have been recruited by her Department in each month since March 2020.
On 31st October 2020 HSE employed 960 full-time equivalent (FTE) inspectors plus an additional 9 FTE ex-HSE inspectors who have been employed on a temporary basis to work with HSE in delivering spot check inspections to ensure COVID compliance.
| Mar-20 | Apr-20 | May-20 | Jun-20 | Jul-20 | Aug-20 | Sep-20 | Oct-20 |
Inspectors Recruited by month (FTE) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1 |