HC Deb 10 July 1989 vol 156 c369W
Mr. Tony Lloyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the accident rate per 1,000 trainees on YTS and for employees generally.

Mr. Cope

The rate of accidents reported to the Training Agency per 100,000 trainees on YTS in the year ended 31 March 1988 was 804. This includes types of accidents which would not be reportable to HSE in the case of employees generally. The rate of accidents to all employees reported to HSE in the same year was 734 per 100,000, but this figure does not allow for the known substantial under-reporting, so the figures are not comparable.

Detailed research shows that YTS trainees are no more at risk than employees generally and could be less so.

1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
Average number of establishments found per inspector not displaying notices or having inadequate notices 105 96 80 76 73 74 69 61 57 54
Average number of establishments found per inspector not keeping time records or keeping inadequate time records 200 191 164 161 146 143 123 114 108 105
Average number of establishments found per inspector not keeping wage records or keeping inadequate wage records 40 46 41 40 36 35 28 26 26 26
Average number of establishments found per inspector not giving statutory customary holidays <1 <l <1 <1 <1 <1 <1 <1 <1 <1
Average number of establishments found per inspector not giving statutory annual holidays <1 <1 <1 <1 <1 2 2 4 5 7
Average number of establishments found per inspector underpaying holiday remuneration 28 23 23 26 28 31 31 30 26 21
Average number of establishments found per inspector underpaying (other than holiday remuneration) 38 37 45 53 47 66 72 72 62 61

1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988
Average number of establishments found per inspector not displaying notices or having inadequate notices 59 58 57 64 74 70 87 84 117
Average number of establishments found per inspector not keeping time records or keeping inadequate time records 102 98 88 98 101 94 114 90 106
Average number of establishments found per inspector not keeping wage records or keeping inadequate wage records 27 23 20 22 17 13 15 17 23
Average number of establishments found per inspector not giving statutory customary holidays <1 1 1 1 1 1 2 not applicable
Average number of establishments found per inspector not giving statutory annual holidays 6 6 5 4 5 4 6 not applicable
Average number of establishments found per inspector underpaying holiday remuneration 21 26 26 25 29 25 31 not applicable
Average number of establishments found per inspector underpaying (other than holiday remuneration) 69 73 61 64 53 50 58 59 82