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Mr. Clifton-Brown
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many prosecutions were brought by the Health and Safety Executive in each of the last five years; and what percentage of (a) cases and (b) contested cases resulted in prosecutions.
Mr. McLoughlin
The following table gives the information requested for the Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) factory, agricultural and quarry inspectorates. Figures for 1992–93 will be available later this year. Information for the other HSE inspectorates is not readily available. Prosecutions have been interpreted as informations laid.
| Number of informations laid by HSE's Factory, Agricultural and Quarry Inspectors and the percentage of informations that resulted in conviction 1987–9223 | |||
| Year | Number of informations laid | Percentage of informations resulting in conviction | Percentage of not-guilty pleas resulting in conviction |
| 1987–88 | 2,321 | 88 | 41 |
| 1988–89 | 2,298 | 90 | 61 |
| 1989–90 | 2,547 | 88 | 49 |
| 1990–91 | 2,278 | 86 | 47 |
| 11991–92 | 2,388 | 88 | 47 |
Notes:
1 = provisional.
2 Years are from 1 April to 31 March.
3 Quarries Inspectorates are only included from 1990–91.