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1699157

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date	26/03/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Health and Safety: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Health and Safety Executive pursued prosecution of (a) public and (b) private sector employers for failure to abide by health and safety legislation during the Covid 19 pandemic.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
uin	20796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2024 answer text <p>The Health and Safety at Work etc Act (HSWA) 1974 is the primary piece of legislation covering occupational health and safety in Great Britain. It sets out the general duties which employers have towards employees and members of the public, employees have to themselves and to each other and certain self-employed have towards themselves and others.</p><p> </p><p>HSWA applies equally across all workplaces in all industry sectors and does not distinguish between either public or private sector duty-holders. As such, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) would not routinely differentiate or record this information.</p><p> </p><p>The prosecution data below is for the time period of the 1<sup>st</sup> April 2020 and the 31<sup>st</sup> March 2022, this being the timeframe of the pandemic prior to HSE returning to business as usual. The figures are for all prosecutions taken under health and safety legislation which were published in the HSE Annual Report <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/614339a2e90e0704352cbc06/hse-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-2021.pdf" target="_blank">2020/21</a> and <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20230103121204/https:/www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/the-annual-report-and-accounts.htm" target="_blank">2021/22</a> respectively and are not Covid specific.</p><p> </p><p>HSE pursued 206 prosecutions in 2020/21, with a 94% conviction rate, and 290 prosecutions in 2021/22, with a 96% conviction rate. A total of 496 prosecutions across the period referred to.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 16/04/2024 15:41:04 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

1699159

registered interest
date	26/03/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Health and Safety: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Health and Safety Executive is investigating (a) public and (b) private sector employers for failure to abide by health and safety legislation during the Covid 19 pandemic.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
uin	20797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2024 answer text <p>The Health and Safety at Work etc Act (HSWA) 1974 is the primary piece of legislation covering occupational health and safety in Great Britain. It sets out the general duties which employers have towards employees and members of the public, employees have to themselves and to each other and certain self-employed have towards themselves and others.</p><p> </p><p>HSWA applies equally across all workplaces in all industry sectors and does not distinguish between either public or private sector duty-holders. As such, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) would not routinely differentiate or record this information.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 16/04/2024 15:44:45 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

1699160

registered interest
date	26/03/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Health and Safety: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any (a) public and (b) private sector employer has been reported to the Health and Safety Executive for failure to abide by health and safety legislation during the Covid 19 pandemic.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
uin	20798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2024 answer text <p>The Health and Safety at Work etc Act (HSWA) 1974 is the primary piece of legislation covering occupational health and safety in Great Britain. It sets out the general duties which employers have towards employees and members of the public, employees have to themselves and to each other and certain self-employed have towards themselves and others.</p><p> </p><p>HSWA applies equally across all workplaces in all industry sectors and does not distinguish between either public or private sector duty-holders. As such, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) would not routinely differentiate or record this information.</p><p> </p><p>Reports received by HSE are generally in the form of a ‘concern’. These can be in relation to any health and safety issue in the workplace and can be submitted via HSE’s online <a href="https://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/tell-us-about-a-health-and-safety-issue.htm" target="_blank">reporting portal</a>.</p><p>Between the 1<sup>st</sup> April 2020 and the 31st March 2022, this being the timeframe of the pandemic prior to HSE returning to business as usual, HSE handled over 70,000 concerns about health and safety in the workplace.</p><p> </p><p>However, not all of these concerns were in relation to a failure to abide by health and safety legislation, some were requests for general health and safety advice, support, and guidance. This data has been published in the HSE Annual Report <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/614339a2e90e0704352cbc06/hse-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-2021.pdf" target="_blank">2020/21</a> and <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20230103121204/https:/www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/the-annual-report-and-accounts.htm" target="_blank">2021/22</a> respectively and is not Covid specific.</p><p /> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 16/04/2024 15:47:41 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

1699164

registered interest
date	26/03/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment: Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of levels of in-work poverty in Poplar and Limehouse constituency.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
uin	20802
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2024 answer text <p>Statistics are not available at the constituency level.</p><p> </p><p>National Statistics on the number and percentage of people in “in-work poverty”, including regional-level data, is published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication. This can be found <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-for-financial-years-ending-1995-to-2023" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p /><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 15/04/2024 10:51:06 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

1699166

registered interest
date	26/03/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Prevention of Future Deaths Reports have related to (a) universal credit and (b) other benefits in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
uin	20803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2024 answer text <p>The Department has received 6 Prevention of Future Death (PFD) reports in the last five years to date. 1 report did not relate to a customer who was in receipt of benefits. The breakdown of the reports by year and the benefit claimed is provided in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Number of PFD reports received in the last 5 years</p></td><td><p>Universal Credit (UC)</p></td><td><p>Personal Independence Payment (PIP)</p></td><td><p>Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and PIP</p></td><td><p>Not in Receipt of Benefits</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2024</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>* This report related to Child Maintenance.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 16/04/2024 15:31:17 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum