Asbestos: Licensing

(asked on 10th May 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many licenses have been revoked by the Health and Safety Executive’s Asbestos Licensing Unit in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Mims Davies Portrait
Mims Davies
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 19th May 2023

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) uses a range of regulatory approaches to ensure compliance with licensing. Licenses are revoked in the most serious cases, but licences can also be refused at re-application; additional conditions added; or additional inspections carried out to more closely monitor a licensee.

The statistics for asbestos licences revoked each year from 2010 are as follows:

Year*

Number of revocations

2010 - 2011

2

2011 - 2012

0

2012 - 2013

1

2013 - 2014

1

2014 - 2015

0

2015 - 2016

0

2016 - 2017

0

2017 - 2018

0

2018 - 2019

1

2019 - 2020

0

2020 - 2021

0

2021 - 2022

0

2022 - 2023

1

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