Health and Safety

HC Deb 16 May 1995 vol 260 cc157-8W

Mr. McCartney

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many applications to industrial tribunals there have been under the Safety Representatives and Safety Committee Regulations 1977 for each year since 1978. [23373]

Mr. Oppenheim

The number of applications to the industrial tribunals under these regulations was as follows:

Year	Number of applications
1994–95	14
1993–94	11
1992–93	2
1991–92	16
1990–91	11
1989–90	7
1988–89	10
1987–88	4
1986–87	5

Prior to these dates, applications under the above regulations were not separately identified, but were aggregated with appeals dealt with under the Health and Safety Improvement and Prohibition Notice Appeals Regulations. However, detailed records of applications under these regulations are no longer available for the period prior to January 1984.