Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 13 of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Business Plan 2016-17, what steps the HSE plans to take to meet the proposed nine per cent reduction to its funding by 2019-20.

This programme seeks to provide further cash savings through continued commercial contract management, process simplification, digitally enabling services and further rationalisation of our estate footprint.

HSE is seeking to manage the funding reduction through a combination of growing HSE’s commercial income and delivering its efficiency programme.