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DWP sidesteps safety information request
Department claims it has 'no information' on safety cuts it announced in 2011
Prime Minister must give young workers the right to guaranteed hours and ending the scourge of insecure work, TUC says
Construction union Ucatt blasted ministers yesterday for slashing vital health and safety inspections without any investigation into the impact.
The Department for Work and Pensions announced in 2011 that it would cut the number of proactive, or unannounced, inspections by the Health and Safety Executive by a third.
It meant capping knock-on-door probes to 22,000 a year, effectively ending proactive investigations in many sectors including agriculture, quarries and docks.
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