Select Committee on Home Affairs Written Evidence

42. Memorandum submitted by Ian Watson

  The UK's proposed corporate manslaughter Bill includes no new sanctions—jail sentences or fines—on bosses implicated in workplace deaths, and it should do so. Without the option of jail for individuals, experience in other countries has consistently shown that fines on a company alone are no deterrent.

16 May 2005

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Prepared 26 October 2005