§ Mr. Tony LloydTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the number of safety reports, under regulation 7(i) of the Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazard Regulations 1984, submitted to each Health and Safety Executive region before 8 July 1989 and the number of site occupiers who have still to receive a confirmatory letter from the Health and Safety Executive stating that the report has been examined, that selective inspections based on the report have been completed and that the report will now be used as a reference document in future inspections.
§ Mr. ForthInformation about the submission of safety reports under the Control of Industrial Major Hazards Regulations 1984—CIMAH—before 8 July 1989 is not available in the form requested and can be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
However under CIMAH, operators at existing industrial activities covered by the regulations were required to submit safety reports to the HSE by 8 July 1989. The HSE received 331 such reports by August 1989. The table shows a breakdown by the HSE regions that now exist:
Number Wales and the South West 45 London and the South East 14 Home Counties 24 Midlands 21 Yorkshire and the North East 105 North West 57 Scotland 65 All reports must be examined on a multi-disciplinary basis by the HSE's field operations and technology divisions. A total of 325 reports have been examined and 86 of these have been categorised as entirely satisfying the requirement of schedule 6 of the CIMAH and have received a confirmatory letter.