Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list every date on which the Health and Safety Executive issued his Department a notification of contravention since 2013.

Health and Safety Notices of Contravention (NOC) can be issued to any organisation within Defence at a local level and this information is not held centrally by the Ministry of Defence (MOD). However, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) publishes details of NOC it has issued to organisations including the MOD on its website which can be found at this link - Notices found - Enforcement notices public (hse.gov.uk).

Furthermore, it may be helpful to provide a list of Crown Censures which are served on the department by the HSE for a more serious breach of health and safety law if the HSE deems that, but for Crown immunity, there would have been sufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction.

The MOD and Reserve Forces and Cadet Associations have received the following Crown Censures since 2013:-