Fee for Intervention update

The Business Law firm DWF has revealed figures from its recent Freedom of Information request for “Fee for Intervention” figures from the HSE. These figures relate to the third batch of invoices issues by the HSE in relation to fees for intervention scheme (FFI). These figures for February and March 2013 show that the figure recovered (from businesses) under this scheme has, for the first time, passed the £1,000,000. In fact, this batch of 2541 invoices yielded £1,089,000 in receipts. This relates to an increase of 41% in the number of invoices issues in a period and an average invoice charge of £428.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the construction sector saw the largest increase in invoices (this period also included a targeted campaign on construction site safety by the HSE). It is also report that the number of proactive inspections remained similar to previous bi-month totals of about 3000.