§ Mr. Bill MichieTo 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. NichollsThe information requested is not available.
§ Mr. Bill MichieTo 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. NichollsInformation 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 MichieTo 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. NichollsInformation 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.
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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