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600784

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2016
	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	Mining: Industrial Health and Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 September 2016 to Question 44365, whether the Health and Safety Executive holds any data on changes to work patterns in the mining industry in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
	tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
	uin	48471
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2016 answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive do not hold any statistical data on changes to work patterns in the mining industry in the last five years.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 20/10/2016 10:56:38 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

582607

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2016
	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	Mining: Industrial Health and Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 September 2016 to Question 44365, what assessment the Health and Safety Executive has made on the effect of long shift patterns on the incidence of (a) errors, (b) accidents and (c) injuries in (i) all sectors of the workforce and (ii) the mining industry.
	tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
	tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
	uin	46238
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2016 answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) does not hold this information. However, HSE recognises that poorly designed shift-working arrangements and long working hours can result in fatigue, accidents, injuries and ill health and has produced guidance for employers on designing and implementing shift-working arrangements:</p><p>(<a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/humanfactors/topics/fatigue.htm" target="_blank">http://www.hse.gov.uk/humanfactors/topics/fatigue.htm</a>).</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 10/10/2016 16:16:17 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

573900

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2016
	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	Mining: Industrial Health and Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent accidents in the mining industry.
	tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
	tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
	uin	44374
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2016 answer text <p>The Mines Regulations 2014 replaced all previous legislation relating to health and safety in mines. They provide a comprehensive and simple goal-setting legal framework to ensure that mine operators provide all the necessary protection for mineworkers and others from the inherent hazards in mining.</p><p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) targets interventions with the underground mining dutyholders and a mine’s past safety and health performance is taken into account when deciding on the detail of specific interventions.</p><p> </p><p>HSE investigates reported accidents in mines in line with the criteria set out in its Incident Selection Criteria. Investigations focus on determining both the immediate and underlying causes in order to prevent recurrence. HSE also make recommendations for improved methods of work and systems for the wider industry if necessary and holds dutyholders to account through proportional enforcement where appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 08/09/2016 11:01:58 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

573901

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2016
	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	Mining: Industrial Health and Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make financial support available to improve health and safety (a) at Boulby Potash mine and (b) in the mining industry.
	tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
	tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
	uin	44375
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government does not provide individual businesses or the mining industry with financial support to help them meet their health and safety duties. Protection of employees, or others who may be affected by work activities, is the responsibility of those who create the health and safety risks. The Health and Safety Executive’s programme of work for the mines industry is described further on its website (<a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/mining/programme.htm" target="_blank">http://www.hse.gov.uk/mining/programme.htm</a>).</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 08/09/2016 11:11:23 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

573893

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2016
	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	Mining: Industrial Health and Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on the number of health and safety incidents which have taken place in the mining industry when employees were working on shift patterns of more than (a) eight, (b) 10 and (c) 12 hours.
	tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
	tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
	uin	44365
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2016 answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive does not hold such information.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 07/09/2016 16:24:58 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

573897

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2016
	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	Mining: Industrial Health and Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on the relationship between staffing levels and health and safety incidents in mines.
	tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
	tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
	uin	44364
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2016 answer text <p>During its interventions, HSE assesses how dutyholders provide for and manage the provision of safety-critical competence at mines. This includes assessing whether staff with responsibility for safety-critical tasks are sufficiently experienced and resourced.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 07/09/2016 16:22:53 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop