§ Mr. ChidgeyTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many senior inspectors and medical advisers retired from the Health and Safety Executive on 17 March; and for how many years in total they had worked for the executive. [15210]
§ Mr. OppenheimFifty-eight senior inspectors and nine medical advisers retired from the Health and Safety250W Executive on 17 March 1995 under the voluntary early retirement scheme. In total, they had 1,180 years service with HSE.
VERS is part of a long-term restructuring exercise designed to ensure that HSE has the talent and experience it needs for challenges now and in the future. No inspectors have been made redundant. A campaign to recruit 60 front-line inspectors is under way.
There will be no diminution of enforcement activity.