Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much revenue the Health and Safety Laboratory generated from external contracts in each of the last five years.
The Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL), operated as an in-house agency of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) until it was integrated as a major part of HSE’s Science Division in April 2015.
The following table shows the level of revenue Science Division generated from external contracts in each of the last five years:
Financial year | Commercial income |
2016/17 | 13.6 |
2015/16 | 12.9 |
2014/15 | 12.9 |
2013/14 | 10.2 |
2012/13 | 8.7 |