§ Mr. Michieasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many licences under the Asbestos (Licensing) Regulations 1983 have been issued by the Health and Safety Executive; how many licences have been issued to organisations in each of the following categories (a) with four or more prosecutions under asbestos-related health and safety legislation, (b) with 777W three or more prosecutions as above, (c) with two or more prosecutions as above and (d) with one or more prosecutions as above.
§ Mr. Peter BottomleyThere have been no licences issued to organisations in the hon. Member's categories(a) and (b). There has been one licence issued to an organisation in category (c) and eighteen licences issued to organisations in category (d).
§ Mr. Michieasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many licences have been issued under the Asbestos (Licensing) Regulations 1983 to organisations with four or more prohibition or improvement notices issued against them under asbestos-related health and safety legislation, with three or more prosecutions, with two or more prosecutions, and with one prosecution.
§ Mr. Peter BottomleyNo licences have been issued to organisations with four or more prohibition or improvement notices served under asbestos-related health and safety legislation.
No licences have been issued to organisations with three or more prosecutions. One licence has been issued to an organisation with two prosecutions and 18 licences to organisations with one prosecution.
§ Mr. Michieasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many licences have been refused under the Asbestos (Licensing) Regulations 1983; and what was the reason for all refusals.
§ Mr. Peter BottomleyThe Health and Safety Executive has refused one licence application under the 1983 Asbestos (Licensing) Regulations. The applicant's standard of training, supervision and site management, which are all considered to be important aspects of the proper control of work with asbestos, were ineffective.
The company has since re-applied and now holds a six months conditional licence.
§ Mr. Michieasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many organisations have been issued with licences under the Asbestos (Licensing) Regulations 1983; and how many have been visited by officers of the relevant enforcing authority since the licence was issued.
§ Mr. Peter Bottomley1,295 licences have been issued to individual licence holders. It is not possible to ascertain without disproportionate cost how many have been visited by officers of the relevant enforcing authority.
§ Mr. Michieasked the Secretary of State for Employment for what proportion of the licences issued under the Asbestos (Licensing) Regulations 1983 it was made a condition that the enforcing authority should be given advance notification of every job to which the Asbestos (Licensing) Regulations 1983 apply.
§ Mr. Peter Bottomley1,295 licences have been issued to date. Of these 1,233 (95.2 per cent.) have the condition of advance notification.
§ Mr. Cabornasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many additional Health and Safety inspectors have been recruited to cope with additional work load imposed by the Asbestos (Licensing) Regulations 1983.
§ Mr. Peter BottomleyThe Health and Safety Executive aims to recruit up to 50 general factory inspectors during 1984–85. Allocation of inspectors to778W particular blocks of work is dealt with flexibly in response to changing needs; staff are not, in general, recruited for specific purposes.