Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much commercial income was accrued to the Health and Safety Executive in each of the last five years.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has earned the following commercial income in each of the last five years:
| 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
Commercial Income (£M) | 10.2 | 12.9 | 14.6 | 15.5 | 16.2 |
Note – the figures are as per HSE’s Annual Report and Accounts and represent income from the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) external customers for 13/14 and 14/15, and commercial income from 15/16 onwards as defined in note 4 to the 16/17 ARA (15/16 restated). HSL operated as an in-house agency of HSE until it was integrated as a major part of HSE’s Science Division in April 2015.