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The HSE’s capacity and will to fulfil that role have been seriously questioned. After Brexit, it did not just have to fund a 40% increase in its chemicals workforce; it also had to become the regulator for building safety and dangerous goods, such as explosives, on an organisation-wide budget that was down by £122 million—43%—between 2010 and 2020. In 2025, the HSE had nearly 3,000 staff and 900 inspectors. That was well below the more than 4,000 staff and 1,500 inspectors it had in the 2000s. Will the Government be boosting the clearly inadequate resources of the HSE?