Death Of Paul Lee And Prosecution Of Enterprise Inns

EDM number 839 in 2010-12, proposed by Greg Mulholland on 18/10/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Industrial health and safety and Tourism.

That this House condemns the negligence of Enterprise Inns regarding the breach of health and safety regulations at the Aintree Hotel in Liverpool; is appalled that such misconduct led to the tragic and unnecessary death of the licensee, Paul Lee, in November 2007; notes that the company failed to ensure that there was a valid gas safety certificate on the premises, that the fire may not have been serviced since 1979, and that the chimney was completely blocked; further notes that 474 Enterprise Inns pubs did not have valid gas safety certificates; and further notes that this led to a prosecution of Enterprise Inns by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), during which HSE inspector Iain Evans stated that `it is shocking that a major pub chain failed to ensure regular gas safety checks were carried out at more than 400 of its properties and as a result one man has been killed and hundreds of other lives have been put at risk'; and therefore supports the call for the Chief Executive of Enterprise Inns to take moral responsibility and to resign.

This motion has been signed by a total of 6 MPs.