Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of construction fatalities has resulted in at least one prosecution in each of the last eight years.
The percentage of construction (Standard Industrial Classification, section F) fatalities resulting in at least one prosecution being approved to date in each of the last eight years is as follows:
Year | Number of Fatalities in Construction reported to HSE | Number of fatalities with approved prosecution action* | Percentage* | |
2007/2008 | 74 | 38 | 51% | |
2008/2009 | 57 | 28 | 49% | |
2009/2010 | 44 | 20 | 45% | |
2010/2011 | 52 | 16 | 31% | |
2011/2012 | 49 | 22 | 45% | |
2012/2013 | 46 | 16 | 35% | |
2013/2014 | 47 | 15 | 32% | |
2014/2015 | 39p | 7 | 18% | |
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p - Data published for the most recent year is given a 'p' status (provisional), and a year later is released as final.
*Investigations of some recent and more complex incidents are continuing.