HC Deb 24 November 1992 vol 214 cc637-8W
Mr. Bennett

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if the interim report of the director general of the Health and Safety Executive on market testing will be published and placed in the Library.

Mr. McLoughlin

No. This is an internal working document addressed to the Health and Safety Commission, whose advice on the feasibility of market testing those of HSE's activities not covered by its existing programme we are awaiting.

Mr. Bennett

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what proposals she has to market-test the management board and executive of the Health and Safety Executive.

Mr. McLoughlin

We have no such proposals. The Health and Safety Executive has a programme to market-test its service functions and the director general has been asked to investigate the feasibility of market testing those activities not covered by the existing programme, but not including policy advice or assistance to the Health and Safety Commission.