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 frontline inspectors the Health and Safety Executive has employed in each of the last 10 years.


Answered by
Sarah Newton Portrait
Sarah Newton
This question was answered on 31st January 2019

The number of frontline inspectors the Health and Safety Executive has employed in each of the last 10 years are as follows:

HSE (including ONR)

2008/09

2009/10

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

1,463

1,495

1,450

1,432

1,367

HSE (excluding ONR)

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

1,051

1,038

1,037

988

978

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

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) became an independent statutory public corporation on 1 April 2014 and are excluded from 2013/14 onwards.

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