Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many licences the Health and Safety Executive has issued for the purposes of manufacturing and storing explosives in each year since 2015.
Under the provisions of the Explosives Regulations 2014 (as amended), the Health and Safety Executive has issued 470 licences for the purposes of manufacturing and storing explosives since 2015. The table details the number of licences issued by year:
Year | Licences issued |
2015 | 74 |
2016 | 53 |
2017 | 48 |
2018 | 40 |
2019 | 45 |
2020 | 53 |
2021 | 64 |
2022 | 50 |
2023 | 43 |
Total | 470 |