Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff were employed in each division or directorate of the Health and Safety Executive in each region in each year since 2008.

Please see attached spreadsheet detailing HSE staff in each division and region from 2007/08 to 2019/20 and note the following:

1. Figures provided are for full-time equivalent (FTE) staff (rounded to nearest whole number) on 31st March for each year, as published in HSE’s Annual Report and Accounts, with further analysis by division and region.
2. Figures provided do not include staff from the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) which became an independent statutory public corporation on 1 April 2014.
3. HSE is a national regulator and regulatory effort is not necessarily confined by geographical region. HSE has specialists who work across geographical regions such as those regulating major hazard sectors.