§ Sir Bernard Braineasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many enforcement notices have been served by the Health and Safety Executive on each of the regional gas boards over the past five years; and how many prosecutions have been initiated by the executive in that period.
§ Mr. MayhewIn the period from 1975 to 1979 HSE records show 16 enforcement notices served on the gas industry. To identify the individual gas boards to which the notices were issued would involve disproportionate cost.
In this period the Eastern and Scottish boards were each prosecuted once.