§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment, further to his answer of Friday 21 April,Official Report, column 347, if he will consider extending the 1985 regulations to workers at the House of Commons.
§ Mr. NichollsThe Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1985 were made under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. As I explained to the hon. Member on Monday 17 April at column44, the Act does not apply to the House of Commons and I do not intend to seek its extension to the House.
Under the arrangements for inspection of the Palace of Westminster and the parliamentary estate, the palace authorities would inform the Health and Safety Executive of major accidents, dangerous occurrences or diseases that occur at the palace. No such reports have been received by HSE since the arrangements were formalised.