Furniture: Inspections
(asked on 4th December 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many inspections of upholstery and furniture workshops have been carried out by the Health and Safety Executive in each of the last five years.
Between 2019 and the present date, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have inspected 2104 premises whose primary business includes the manufacture of office and shop furniture, kitchen furniture, mattresses and other furniture (based on the Standard Industry Classification (SIC)).
The breakdown by year is as follows:
Year | Number of Inspections |
2019/20 | 304 |
2020/21 | 145 |
2021/22 | 192 |
2022/23 | 419 |
2023/24 | 627 |
2024/25 | 319 |
2025 to date | 98 |