Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Health and Safety Inspectors were employed by the Health and Safety Executive at the end of May in each of the last 10 years up to and including 2020.
The table below shows the number of inspectors employed by the Health and Safety Executive in each of the last 10 years up to and including 2020:
Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Inspectors | 10/11 | 11/12 | 12/13 | 13/14 | 14/15 | 15/16 | 16/17 | 17/18 | 18/19 | 19/20 |
Total | 1234 | 1170 | 1104 | 1036 | 1029 | 1018 | 988 | 976 | 981 | 971 |