HC Deb 31 October 1989 vol 159 cc176-7W
Mr. Bill Michie

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment, for each Health and Safety Executive area, on how many occasions in the last three years Health and Safety Executive inspectors have been accompanied on work place visits by an interpreter.

Mr. Nicholls

The information requested is not available.

Mr. Bill Michie

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if the ethnic origin of persons suffering workplace accidents and diseases reported under RIDDOR is recorded by the Health and Safety Executive.

Mr. Nicholls

Information about the ethnic origin of people suffering workplace accidents and diseases is not recorded by the Health and Safety Executive. Neither the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences regulations 1985 nor the approved form of report require notification of the ethnic origin of the injured person.

Mr. Bill Michie

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment, in relation to the categories used in the Civil Service ethnic monitoring system, how many people in each category have been employed in each division of the Health and Safety Executive, in each of the last five years.

Mr. Nicholls

Information on the ethnic monitoring of staff in each division of the Health and Safety Executive has been collated only since 1987. The tables show the numbers of staff in each category at the end of June 1987, 1988 and 1989.

White Black Asian Other Non-respondents Total
RLSD 428 8 12 1 31 480
Total 3,228 66 59 17 329 3,699

Quarter ending June 1988
White Black Asian Other Non-respondents Total
Secretariat 23 5 3 0 5 36
HSD 59 3 7 0 16 85
SPD 139 5 5 1 25 175
RPD 379 12 11 4 63 469
TD 267 1 0 2 37 307
MQI 98 0 1 0 15 114
MD 220 6 6 0 29 261
FAID 1,240 17 8 5 190 1,460
NII 150 4 2 1 35 192
RLSD 392 6 9 1 46 454
Total 2,968 60 52 14 461 3,555

Quarter ending June 1987
White Black Asian Other Non-respondents Total
Secretariat 24 5 0 0 3 32
HSD 67 3 6 0 12 88
SPD 52 3 3 0 13 71
RPD 375 12 11 4 66 468
TD 365 4 1 3 52 425
MQI 107 0 3 0 19 129
MD 236 5 6 0 34 281
FAID 1,287 18 9 5 190 1,509
NII 130 4 2 1 31 168
RLSD 405 6 11 1 47 470
Total 3,048 60 52 14 467 3,641

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