Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) improvement and (b) prohibition notices were issued by Health and Safety Executive inspectors to operators of offshore oil and gas installations in each year since 2016-17; and how many of those notices were related to safety maintenance issues.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have issued the following enforcement notices since 2016 – 17:

2016: 34 Improvement Notices of which 18 related to safety maintenance and 2 Prohibition Notices of which 1 related to safety maintenance

2017: 41 Improvement Notices of which 20 related to safety maintenance and 6 Prohibition Notices of which 4 related to safety maintenance

2018: 28 Improvement Notices of which 7 related to safety maintenance and 1Prohibition Notices of which 0 related to safety maintenance

2019: 22 Improvement Notices of which 6 related to safety maintenance and 4 Prohibition Notices of which 1 related to safety maintenance

2020: 21 Improvement Notices of which 12 related to safety maintenance and 2 Prohibition Notices of which 0 related to safety maintenance

2021: 22 Improvement Notices of which 8 related to safety maintenance and 2 Prohibition Notices of which 0 related to safety maintenance

2022: 30 Improvement Notices of which 6 related to safety maintenance and 0 Prohibition Notices

2023: 13 Improvement Notices of which 2 related to safety maintenance and 0 Prohibition Notices