Stephen O’Brien – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen O’Brien on 2014-06-30.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measures of the value of life and health were included in the evidence submitted as part of the Health and Safety Executive’s work with the Inter-departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008.

Mike Penning

I refer my Rt. Hon. friend to the Written Answer I gave him on 2 July 2014 Official Report, col 643w.

HSE does not apply cost-per-quality adjusted life year (QALY) thresholds. In the Regulatory Impact Assessment described in the evidence submitted by HSE to the Inter-Departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008, which is published in the Library, HSE used a value of £42,000 per QALY to estimate the benefits of the intervention. These were compared against the expected costs of the intervention in order to assess the potential net benefits to society.