To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what data on radioactive materials transported into and within the United Kingdom is routinely collected by his Department.

Data supplied about consignments of radioactive materials that have to be notified to the Department of Transport before shipment were detailed in the reply given to the Hon. Member for Derbyshire, North-East (Mr. Barnes) on 29 January.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he expects work on the new north-south relief road in Macclesfield to be completed.

I expect the section of road between Flash lane and Hibel road to open to traffic on 10 February. Work on the remaining section between Hibel road and Mill lane should be completed shortly after Easter.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what are the reasons for the delay in completing the new north-south relief road in Macclesfield.

Additional contract works, difficulties with the diversion of statutory undertakers apparatus and the late delivery of the Middlewood way footbridge are the main reasons for the delay in completion.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport which supplier was commissioned by his Department to provide the Middlewood way foot bridge for the north-south relief road in Macclesfield; at what cost this contract was placed; when it will be fulfilled; and why it was late in delivery.

The Middlewood way footbridge was included in the Department's contract for the relief road with Fairclough Civil Engineering at an estimated cost of £370,000. I expect work on the bridge to be completed in the next two weeks. The reasons for the delay in delivery are matters between Fairclough's and its suppliers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many lorry drivers who treat their diabetes by injections of insulin have had their HGV licences revoked since April 1991.

Forty insulin treated drivers had their large goods vehicle—previously HGV—licence entitlement revoked between August and December last year. Prior to that, no manual or computer summary record was kept of the numbers of insulin revocations.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what was the total revenue raised from motor taxation in each year from 1979 to 1992; and what is the estimated revenue for 1992–93.

The figures are as follows:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what information he has as to the arrangements similar to United Kingdom vehicle excise duty applicable in each of the other countries of the European Community.

Information on the vehicle taxes imposed by other EC countries can be found in "World Road Statistics 1986–1990", published by the International Road Federation. A copy is held in the Library.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what are the categories of vehicle in respect of which vehicle excise duty is chargeable; what is the current rate for each such category; when was the most recent change in respect of each category; what was the previous rate; and what was the revenue derived from each such category in the latest convenient period.

The categories and current rates are set out in Form V 149, available from post offices and vehicle registration offices. I attach a copy for my hon. Friend.For road taxation revenue purposes, these categories fall into five vehicle classes. The estimated VED revenue for each is published in "The allocation of road track costs 1991/91", a copy of which is available in the Library.The 12-montly rate for cars and light vans was £90 prior to 1985. Rates for motor cycles were increased by between £5 and £10 in 1991. The tax structure for taxis, buses and coaches was reorganised in 1989, with increases of between £47·50 and £395 related to passenger-carrying capacity.The VED structure for goods vehicles exceeding 3·5 tonnes was simplified in 1990, involving increases in rates of between £20 and £470 for 140,000 lorries and reductions of between £30 and £570 for 3,800 vehicles. Rates for 320,000 lorries remained the same. The "other vehicles" class comprises recovery vehicles, special machines—mobile cranes, and so on—and "special types"—exceptionally large or heavy vehicles. The rate for recovery vehicles was increased by £25 and the rate for special machines by £14 in 1991. The rate for "special types" was increased in 1990 by £150.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will take steps to ensure that Mercury telephone boxes are installed at all motorway service areas in the United Kingdom.

Leases for motorway service areas—MSAs —in England, require as a standard the provision of public telephones. The choice of supplier is a matter for the MSA operator. MSAs in Wales and Scotland are the responsibility of my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Wales and for Scotland respectively.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what progress he has made towards (a) increasing competition in the provision of services on motorways and (b) increasing the number of service areas on motorways.

The citzens charter announced the Government's intention to deregulate the provision of motorway service areas with the aim of providing more services more quickly. Detailed proposals will be announced shortly.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) who specified the mix of materials which has been found to be faulty in the construction of the Norwich southern bypass; and if (a) his Department, (b) the consulting engineers or (c) the contractors are liable for the resulting cost; (2) what is the estimate of the cost of remedial work on the Norwich southern bypass following the discovery of a faulty mix of materials in its construction.

[holding answer 27 January 1992]: The Department's specification for highway works which incorporates British standards is used on all its trunk road contracts including Norwich southern bypass. It lays down criteria for road materials which allow contractors and suppliers a wide choice to encourage the use of local and low cost sources of raw materials to minimise transportation and environmental costs. At Norwich each of the four contracts is using a different combination of ingredients for the bituminous mix. The sources of supply for each varies and some local Norfolk aggregates are being used.The particular combinations of aggregates and bituminous binder used in the heavy duty macadam exhibited unexpected deformation causing a suspension of work while the possible causes were investigated.Adjustments have been made to the mixes within the British standard to provide a material which has greater resistance to deformation.The extent and apportionment of any additional costs will be resolved under the terms of the contract.Present indications are that the completed bypass will be opened to traffic by the original contract completion date.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the compatibility of the external frontiers convention with the universal declaration of human rights, the international covenant on civil and political rights, the European convention on human rights, ILO conventions 97 and 143, the Helsinki final act and the Paris charter and the Council of Europe social charter.

We have no reason to believe that the draft external frontiers convention, signature of which has been held up by disagreement with the Spanish Government over a provision concerning application to Gibraltar, is in breach of any of the United Kingdom's international obligations.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the compatibility of the external frontiers convention with the European convention on the legal status of migrant workers and the international convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and their families.

The United Kingdom is not a party to either of the conventions on migrant workers.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will investigate the allegation that applications for membership of a Birmingham working men's club featured in the recent Commission for Racial Equality case were made without the applicant's knowledge; and if he will make a statement.

The conduct of formal investigations and the issuing of non-discrimination notices are matters for the Commission for Racial Equality.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children since 1981 have been born in the departure lounges of airports at (a) Heathrow, (b) Gatwick, (c) Leeds/Bradford and (d) Manchester; and how many such babies were affected by provisions of the British Nationality Act 1981.

The Home Office does not keep records of how many children were born in airport departure lounges, but any child born in such a place would be affected by the British Nationality Act 1981, section 1 of which determines whether or not the child has acquired British citizenship by birth.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on what date he received a copy of the Matthew Trust report on the Press Complaints Commission and BBC regarding media coverage of the mentally disordered and distressed; and whether he will make a statement.

My right hon. Friend received the report on 14 January. He has noted its conclusions and the director of the Matthew Trust will be receiving a reply shortly.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what consideration he has given to the reintroduction of prison ships; and if he will make a statement.

On Monday 3 February, there were 1,221 prisoners held in police cells. My right hon. Friend has asked the prison service to examine a range of options for reducing this number. Among other possibilities, officials will be investigating the use abroad of floating facilities to house prisoners. However, we have no plans at this stage to introduce such facilities here.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children born in the United Kingdom since 1981 are not British citizens.

This information is not available.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether following the recent escape from Springfield prison he will institute an immediate inquiry into security at the prison.

I assume that the hon. Member is referring to Spring Hill prison.The prisoner who absconded from Spring Hill prison on 5 December 1991 has now been recaptured. Security at Spring Hill is appropriate for an open prison. The allocation of prisoners to open prisons always carries with it an element of risk.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) when he proposes to introduce electronic tagging of offenders under the Criminal Justice Act 1991;(2) what progress has been made towards implementation of electronic tagging of offenders.

Our proposals will be announced shortly.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will now take steps to ensure that international criminals serve their sentences in a high security environment.

Offences committed abroad are already taken into account in the categorisation and allocation process. That process is set out in circular instruction 7/1988, a copy of which is in the Library.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has reached a decision as to (a) whether Warrington young offenders institution and (b) which other prison department establishments, are to close following the estate review 1991; and if he will make a statement.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary gave my hon. Friend the Member for Westminster, North (Sir J. Wheeler) on 30 January at column 647.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will now implement all recent recommendations for improving prison security.

Chapter 2 of the White Paper "Custody, Care and Justice", Cm 1647, set out the Government's plans for improving security in prison service establishments. Those plans are being implemented. As to the recent report of an audit of security in prison service establishments holding category A prisoners, conducted by Mr. Ronald Hadfield and Mr. Gordon Lakes, I would refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply given by my right hon. Friend to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Westminster, North (Sir J. Wheeler) on 16 December 1991 at column 13.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home department what plans his Department is making for the European year of elderly people and solidarity between the generations in 1993.

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health is leading the Government's work on this, in conjunction with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Security: I refer my hon. friend to his reply. He is drawing up plans in consultation with a wide range of national voluntary and professional bodies, statutory authorities and other relevant Government Departments.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the procedures followed by registrars who conduct marriages so as to ensure that there is no evasion of immigration rules.

I have been asked to reply.Superintendent registrars are statutory officers exercising functions under the Marriage and Registration Acts under the direction of the Registrar General. They are not immigration officers. If a superintendent registrar has good reason to suspect that the proposed marriage of a person from abroad has been arranged for the sole purpose of evading statutory immigration controls he/she is instructed to report the facts to the Registrar General. If the Registrar General is satisfied that the marriage is purely one of convenience then the facts will be passed on to the Home Office.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what departments and numbers of civil servants are due to be relocated to the north-west in future plans; and if he will make a statement.

The table lists, with likely timings, the plans which departments have announced for relocating or locating civil service jobs away from the south-east which have still to be implemented or completed.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list by department the number of civil service jobs to be relocated in the west midlands, specifying the geographic location of the areas to which they will move and detailing the dates upon which it is planned to make these relocations.

The Department of Social Security and the Home Office have announced plans for relocating or locating civil service jobs in the west midlands which have yet to be implemented. The Department of Social Security will be opening a Child Support Agency Office in Dudley from 1 April 1993, creating 500 new administrative jobs. The Home Office will be relocating 12 posts from the forensic science service to Birmingham within the next 18 months.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much 1p on the basic rate of income tax would yield in 1992–93 in (a) England, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales.

Increasing the basic rate of income tax to 26 per cent. would yield about £1·95 billion, at 1992–93 levels of income. Separate information for England, Scotland, and Wales is not available.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer further to his answer of 28 January, Official Report, column 487, when he expects to make his decision on proposals relating to the review of management and trading and the review of the organisation and structure of the Board of Inland Revenue; and what consultation he has undertaken.

I have nothing to add to my answer of 28 January at column 487.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the implementation of EC single market legislation associated with excise duties.

The Commissioners of Customs and Excise have issued draft Finance Bill clauses relating to holding and movement of goods subject to excise duties to relevant trade representative bodies for consultation. I have arranged for copies to be placed in the Library of the House.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what are the terms of reference of the study commissioned from University college, Cardiff, concerning the efficiency of the Customs and Excise Agency in its service at airports and seaports; when he expects it to be completed; when it was initiated; and if he will make a statement.

[holding answer 3 February 1992]: The Economic and Social Research Council sponsored Mr. E. Maguire, Professor R. Morgan and Mr. C. Kemp to research complaints to and against central Government Departments. The immigration service and Her Majesty's Customs and Excise were selected to be researched, in a project which started on 1 October 1989. Research was completed in September 1991. A draft report has been produced, and is with the Government Departments to identify factual inaccuracies before publication.The terms of reference of the research were to construct a comprehensive picture of complaints received in all areas of the Department, analyse the grievance mechanisms, examine internal attitudes towards complaints, and examine any managerial or policy making use made of complaints patterns or outcomes. The research therefore extended far wider than the efficiency of the service at airports and seaports, although this area was covered in two small exercises seeking travellers' and complainants' views through questionnaires.The survey of travellers concluded that most had no contact with officers of Customs and Excise, and of those who did have contact, most rated the officers positively. The sample of complainants found that few were happy with the responses that they had received from the Department, but nearly half felt that they had achieved something and more than half were impressed by some aspects of the response—especially its speed and the quality of the written reply.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many places in nursery schools and classes were provided by local education authorities in 1990–91 and 1991–92 in England and Wales; how many of these places were (a) full time and (b) part time; and what was the total number of full-time equivalent places provided.

Information on the number of pupils in maintained nursery schools and nursery classes in primary schools in each local education authority in England in January 1991, the latest date for which information is available, is given in the table. The table also contains information about the number of pupils under five in

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he has any plans to extend the citizens charter so as to cover any grievance which a parent might have against a private school; and if he will make a statement.

No.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are his estimates for the increases in public spending necessary if all primary schools in England were to have a maximum limit of (a) 30 and (b) 32 on class sizes.

I refer my hon. Friend to my reply to the hon. Member for Leeds, Central (Mr. Fatchett) on 24 January at column 343.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what guidance he gives (a) to local education authorities and (b) to Her Majesty's inspectors regarding the desirability of pupils learning multiplication tables by rote; and what representations he has had on the matter.

The national curriculum sets out what is to be taught in schools, and this includes the requirement for pupils to learn mutiplication tables up to 10 times 10. It is for teachers to decide how to deliver the curriculum, and I have not given any guidance on how pupils should learn their tables, nor received any representations on the subject.

To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Tuesday 4 February.

This morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in the House, I shall be having further meetings later today.

To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his answer of 28 January, Official Report, columns 503-4, how many of the Ministers listed, other than the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and himself, took part in party political activities during their visit in addition to their official duties.

This information is not centrally recorded and can be provided only at disproportionate cost.Further to the answer I gave the hon. Member on 28 January, at columns 503-4, the list of ministerial visits omitted the visit to Hong Kong of Lord Brabazon, Minister of State for Transport, in February 1991.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on the assistance available from his Department and the European Community for trade and industry projects in Skelmersdale new town.

Skelmersdale is within the development areas, so firms there are able to benefit from the complete range of assistance available under the DTI's enterprise initiative. The individual measures of support are described in existing departmental publications on the initiative, which are widely available and arrangements have been made for copies to be placed in the Library of the House.Skelmersdale new town also forms part of the Mersey basin operational programme area, which qualifies as an objective 2 area under the European Commission structural funds regime. As such, Skelmersdale is eligible to receive European regional development funds and structural funds for appropriate projects related to infrastructure, business support and training.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what response he has made to representations concerning the adequacy of the supervision by the Securities and Investments Board and the Investment Management Regulatory Organisation of the managers of the pension funds of companies of which the late Robert Maxwell was a director.

My Department is in close touch with SIB and IMRO about regulatory lessons on supervision of pension fund managers to be drawn from the Maxwell case.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will state the annual size and increase in the value of exports and imports of manufactured goods in each year since 1985 to (a) the European Community, (b) the United States, (c) Japan and (d) all other countries; and also express the year on year changes as an index with 1985 as the base.

The available information is contained in the following tables. Manufactured goods are defined as sections 5 to 8 of the standard international trade classification.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will bring forward proposals to prevent auditors from taking appointments as liquidators, administrators or receivers; and if he will consult the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland about the necessary changes to their rules.

I have no plans to do so. The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland have published ethical guidelines for their members and these preclude any firm, or member of that firm, which has had a "continuing professional relationship" with any company from accepting an appointment as an insolvency practitioner in respect of it. In this way conflicts of interest are avoided, particularly between those who may have acted as auditors to the company and any subsequent liquidator.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what progress has been made in the investigation into the activities of Peter Dixon and Peter Cameron-Webb at Lloyd's.

The City of London police and the Serious Fraud Office announced in December 1988 that warrants had been issued for Peter Dixon and Peter Cameron-Webb in connection with the Lloyd's PCW investigation. Both were, and are understood to have remained, resident in the United States, but due to certain restrictions could not be extradited.The final report of the Companies Act inspectors who investigated the affairs of Minet Holdings plc and WMD Underwriting Agencies Ltd., which details the activities of Dixon and Cameron-Webb at Lloyd's, was published in August 1990. At that time, the Secretary of State announced his intention to make applications under section 8 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 in respect of Dixon, Cameron-Webb and John Wallrock. On 31 October 1991, Wallrock was disqualified for five years. The proceedings in respect of Dixon and Cameron-Webb are due to be heard on 6 February.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will supply a figure for the cost of issuing name badges to the staff of the insolvency service.

The cost was £3,657·60.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether Hinckley in Leicestershire is placed under objective 2 of the European regional development fund.

[holding answer 31 January 1992]: No. The European Commission refused the Government's proposal that it should be.

To ask the hon. Member for Berwick upon Tweed, as representing the House of Commons Commission if he will list the grades of staff employed who are required to clock in and clock out at the start and finish of their day's work.

All grades of Refreshment Department industrial staff are required to register their attendance by clock.

To ask the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed, as representing the House of Commons Commission whether (a) police and security staff, (b) catering and cleaning staff, (c) Library staff, (d) Official Report staff, (e) Committee Office staff, (f) Fees Office staff and (g) hon. Members' secretaries and research assistants are covered by an insurance scheme in the event of (i) industrial injury or (ii) an act of terrorism in the Palace of Westminster and its outbuildings.

[holding answer 22 January 1992]: All staff employed by the House of Commons Commission are covered against injury or death sustained in the course of their duties by the provisions of the House of Commons staff pension scheme.Insurance cover has been arranged for Members in respect of employers' liability to provide for any of their staff who suffer injury or death at work due to the Member's negligence. The House of Commons Commission is considering the question of further provision to cover Members' staff against acts of terrorism.The terms and conditions of service of police officers and security staff employed in the parliamentary estate are the responsibility of the Home Office.

To ask the Lord President of the Council if he will take steps (a) to arrange for the cable parliamentary channel to be available on the monitors in No. 1 Parliament street and (b) to remove from them the interruption caused by noises from the House of Lords annunciator.

As I said in reply to a question from the hon. Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks) on 27 January (Official Report, columns 701-2), the question of supplying Members' offices with the parliamentary cable channel (or the clean television feed direct from the Chamber) is to be discussed shortly by the Broadcasting Committee. If it approves the proposal in principle, the Committee will then wish to consider whether such facilities should be made available immediately to those parts of the parliamentary estate (such as No. 1 Parliament street) which are already suitably cabled, or whether it would be preferable to introduce the service for all Members, as far as practicable, simultaneously.The provision on the monitors of information from the House of Lords annunciator service has been considered to be generally useful. Unfortunately, it would not be possible to suppress the information from individual monitors.

To ask the Lord President of the Council if he will make it his policy to provide a Braille transcription service to enable hon. Members to correspond with their blind constituents; and if he will make a statement.

I shall ask the right hon. Member for Salford, East (Mr. Orme) as Chairman of the Administration Committee, to invite the Finance and Administration Department to examine the feasibility and possible cost of providing such a service for Members.

To ask the Lord President of the Council what provision has been made in recent years in the estimates of pensions for the staff of hon. Members; how this provision compares with the amount notionally available; what the amount actually disbursed has been; and if he will make a statement.

The maximum sum available to an hon. Member to make pension contributions in respect of a person employed by him and paid out of the office costs allowance is limited in any one year to 10 per cent. of the limit of the office costs allowance for that year.Although the total sum notionally available is therefore equal to 10 per cent. of the provision for the office costs allowance included in the Estimates for the House of Commons, the sum actually available is further restricted by the application of a pension provision limitation of 10 per cent. of the gross salary paid to an individual secretary/research assistant. Given that most Members are unlikely to devote the whole of their office costs allowance to salaries, because of the need to meet other expenditure, the notionally available figures shown below are not very relevant.With that proviso, the total sums notionally available, together with the total sums actually expended in each of the last three completed years, are:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what information he has on the number of tanks obtained from European nations by the Republic of Croatia for the defence of its borders, and their source.

We have no evidence that any European nation is in breach of the United Nations embargo.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether the reports produced in Yugoslavia by the international team of experts have now been submitted to the Hague conference on Yugoslavia; and if he will make a statement.

I presume that my hon. Friend is referring to the team of experts alluded to in the report published in The Guardian on 17 January 1992. We have no report of the identity of this team or its activities.

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will introduce a licensing fee for oil companies operating in the North sea to cover the cost of providing health and safety inspectors in connection with their operations.

The Health and Safety Commission has not adopted a general policy onshore of charging to cover the costs of health and safety inspection, in view of the difficulties of devising an equitable and workable system. Similar considerations apply offshore, but charges will continue to be made to cover the costs of regular examinations of life-saving appliances and fire-fighting equipment on installations.

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will introduce legislation to ensure that all employees have a statutory right to two weeks minimum paid holiday.

We have no such plans.

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if the Health and Safety Executive is to initiate a prosecution against Idnal Fisher Ltd., Bradford following the death of Jashir Singh on 9 April.

The Health and Safety Executive is considering what, if any, action is appropriate following the investigation into the fatal accident to Jashir Singh on 9 April 1991 at Idnal Fisher Ltd., Bradford. I have asked the HSE's area director for West and North Yorkshire to write to the hon. Member when a decision has been made.

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment when investigating the accident to a crane on 13 July 1991 at St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, following the discovery that the safe load indicator was defective due to the damaged crane, what other sources of information were sought to verify its condition when the crane was operational.

As part of the Health and Safety Executive's investigation to establish the condition of the safe load indicator on the crane immediately before the accident on 13 July 1991, the HSE inspector interviewed witnesses to the accident to determine whether the warning bell had been ringing when the crane began to overturn; obtained from the company a copy of the crane manufacturer's data sheet which describes the crane's main dimensions and lifting capacities; observed the engraved plastic cards in the crane cab which also describe the dimensions and capacities of the crane; examined the cam fitted in the automatic safe load indicator; obtained a copy of the last statutory examination of the machine by a competent person.

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment when the investigation into the accident to James Armstrong at Allied Colloids Ltd., Low Moor, on 25 April 1988 was concluded; what recommendations for improving the loading arrangements were made; if these were implemented; and if he will make a statement on the safety of current arrangements.

No accident to James Armstrong at Allied Colloids Ltd, Low Moor on 25 April 1988 has been reported to the Health and Safety Executive.

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will obtain from the Health and Safety Executive information regarding the accident to R. K. Palmer on 5 August 1991; and whether a prosecution is to be undertaken against either Nationwide Access Platforms Ltd., or A & P Appledore (Falmouth) Ltd.

Mr. R. K. Palmer, and employee of A & P Appledore (Falmouth) Ltd., suffered injuries to his legs and head while working on a mobile elevated work platform.The Health and Safety Executive has initiated prosecution action against Nationwide Access Platforms Ltd. for an alleged breach of section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.