§ Mr. FlanneryTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in theOfficial Report (a) the number of fatal accidents investigated by Her Majesty's factory inspectorate, (b) the number of prosecutions arising from these investigations and (c) the number of these prosecutions taken in the Crown court, in each of the last five years.
§ Mr. NichollsThe numbers of fatal accidents investigated by the Health and Safety Executive's factory inspectorate are set out in the table:
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Year Fatal accidents investigated 1983 384 1984 414 1985 412 1986 353 1987 365 The numbers of informations laid relating to prosecutions by the factory inspectorate are set out in the table. Not all these cases arose from accidents at work. The proportion of these that relates to fatal accidents and the number of subsequent prosecutions taken in the Crown court could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Information for 1987–88 is not yet available.
Year Information laid 1982 2,134 1983 1,989 1984 1,882 1985 1,842 11986 Quarter 1 446 21986–87 1,690 1 Data for the 3-month period January 1986 to March 1986. 2 Provisional data for the 12-month period April 1986 to March 1987.