§ Mr. McAllionTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many health and safety inspectors' hours are spent each week on average, inspecting or monitoring premises and conditions of work for(a) YTS trainees, (b) community programme workers and (c) JTS workers in the Dundee area.
§ Mr. NichollsThe information as requested is not available. When carrying out inspections health and safety inspectors examine the health and safety conditions of all persons, regardless of whether they are engaged in Government schemes or not. No distinction is therefore made between those premises at which people are engaged on YTS, community programme schemes and the job training scheme, and those where they are not.
§ Mr. McAllionTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many health and safety inspectors were employed in Dundee during each year since 1974.
§ Mr. NichollsThe number of factory and agricultural inspectors in the Dundee local office of the HSE's Scotland east area office at 1 April are as follows:
Factory inspectors Agricultural inspectors 1 April 1985 3 1 1 April 1986 3 1 1 April 1987 3 1 I November 1987 3 1 Figures for earlier years are not available.