Health and Safety Executive: Staff

(asked on 23rd January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full-time equivalent inspectors have been employed in each region of the country by the Health and Safety Executive in each of the last five years for which figures are available.


Answered by
Sarah Newton Portrait
Sarah Newton
This question was answered on 1st February 2019

The number of full-time equivalent inspectors employed in each region of the country by the Health and Safety Executive in each of the last five years are as follows:

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

East Midlands

75

72

71

68

47

East of England

85

80

78

80

92

London

87

81

74

65

69

North East

41

47

48

46

41

North West

251

217

232

212

208

Scotland

147

164

184

176

175

South East

72

71

71

62

64

South West

59

63

63

56

58

Wales

60

64

64

65

62

West Midlands

77

80

58

61

58

Yorkshire and Humber

96

98

94

98

105

Total

1051

1038

1037

988

978

HSE inspector numbers are as per the respective Annual Report and Accounts.

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