Stephen Hepburn – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Hepburn on 2016-02-03.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken was between a fatal accident occurring in construction and the start of a prosecution on the latest date for which data is available.
Justin Tomlinson
For fatalities in construction (Standard Industrial Classification, section F) reported to HSE between 2005/06 and 2014/15, the average time between the date of incident and the date prosecution action was approved is 751 days. This number does not include some more recent or complex incidents, which remain under investigation. The time between the incident and prosecution approved to date by yearly time bands is as follows:
|
Time between incident and approval |
Number |
Percentage |
|
0 – 1 year |
43 |
23 |
|
1-2 years |
51 |
27 |
|
2-3 years |
56 |
30 |
|
3-4 years |
28 |
15 |
|
4-5 years |
9 |
5 |
|
5 years + |
2 |
1 |
|
189 |
