New Businesses (Hansard, 3 November 1989)

§ Mr. Eggar

In 1988, the estimated number of new registrations for value added tax in Derbyshire was 3,110. The net increase in the number of VAT-registered businesses in Derbyshire in 1988 was 740, or 3.3 per cent, bringing the total number of VAT-registered businesses in Derbyshire to 22,770.

Injury incidence rates¹ for injuries to employees and the self employed in the construction industry² in Great Britain
Year	Employees	Self employed
	Fatal and major Rate per thousand³	All reported Rate per thousand⁴	Fatal and major Rate per thousand³	All reported Rate per thousand⁴
1979	⁷	31.5	⁷	⁷
1980	⁷	30.0	⁷	⁷
1981	1.7	41.9	0.1	⁷
1982	2.0	40.7	⁷	⁷
1983	2.2	⁷	0.2	⁷
1984	2.4	⁷	0.2	⁷
1985	2.4	⁷	0.3	⁷
1986–87⁵	2.7	19.4	0.9	2.3
1987–88⁵	2.8	19.3	1.0	2.4
1988–89^{5 6}	2.8	18.4	1.3	2.9
¹ Rates based on injuries reported to Health and Safety Executive's Factory and Agricultural Inspectorates and all other relevant enforcing authorities, under the Notification of Accidents and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations, 1980 (NADOR) for 1981 to 1985 and the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations, 1985 (RIDDOR) for later years. Rates for the years 1979–80 are based on reports made under various legislation to the Health and Safety Executive's Inspectorate only.
² The construction industry is defined as Standard Industrial Classification 1980 Division 5.
³ The major injury category was first introduced by NADOR. The definition of a major injury was widened with the introduction of RIDDOR on 1 April 1986.
⁴ Includes injuries causing incapacity for work for more than three days. For the years 1979–80 and from 1986–87 over three day injury data is based on employers' reports to enforcing authorities. For 1981–82 the over three day injury data is based on industrial injury benefit claims.
⁵ Year beginning 1 April.
⁶ Provisional.
⁷ Not available.