§ Mr. Tony LloydTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what monitoring he carries out of the level of fines given by magistrates for health and safety offences; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. ForthThe Health and Safety Executive already monitors the average level of fines in all courts, and publishes the results annually. More recently the HSE has also begun to monitor fine levels in magistrates courts, and I have asked it to let me have the results of that exercise in due course.