Industrial Health and Safety: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the rate of (a) fatal, (b) major and (c) three day injuries to employees in the construction industry in the UK was in (i) 2006 and (ii) the first quarter of 2007. (135671)

The information requested is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the following table.

The following rates of injury to employees in the construction industry relate to published injury numbers for the provisional year 2005-06 and the first six months of 2006-07.

*Rates of injury to employees in the construction industry, as reported to all enforcing authorities*
	Fatal injuries	Non-fatal major injuries	Over three day injuries	All reported injuries
2005-06¹	3.5	310.2	632.1	945.8
2006-07²	3.8	n/a	n/a	n/a
n/a = Not available. ¹ Provisional. ² Represents a crude annualised rate for the first six months of 2006-07, as it does not take account of any adjustments due to seasonal variation.

Volume 460: debated on Friday 18 May 2007