asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many directors, managers, company secretaries, individual employees and safety officers, respectively, have been prosecuted in each year since the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 came into effect; and how many and what percentage of such prosecutions has led to convictions.
The information is not available in the exact form requested, but the chairman of the Health and Safety Commission has supplied the figures in the following table:
| Managers—‡ | |||||||
| Informations | … | … | … | 8 | 16 | 5 | 13 |
| Convictions†: | |||||||
| Number | … | … | … | 8 | 11 | 4 | 12 |
| Percentage | … | … | … | 100 | 69 | 80 | 92 |
| Other employees— | |||||||
| Informations | … | … | … | 42 | 49 | 45 | 26 |
| Convictions†: | |||||||
| Number | … | … | … | 41 | 43 | 42 | 25 |
| Percentage | … | … | … | 98 | 88 | 93 | 96 |
Note: Details for 1975 not available. | |||||||
* Including farmers. | |||||||
| †In addition informations were withdrawn as follows: | |||||||
| 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 (January-September) | |||
| Directors | … | … | 2 | 7 | 12 | 6 |
| Managers | … | … | — | — | 1 | 1 |
| Other employees | … | … | — | 3 | 1 | — |
| ‡Including foremen. | ||||||
| No safety officers are recorded as having been prosecuted. | ||||||
| No analysis of prosecutions by local authorities is available. | ||||||
| Details in the form requested are not available for the few prosecutions instituted by inspectorates other than Factories and Agriculture. | ||||||