Incompetent or Dis-Interested Sparks of Today.

It is interesting to note the numbers of part P scheme members and how many jobs they inspect and notify more generally.

A govt PDF listing year by year up to 2017.   I understand these are the figures submitted to the govt by the scheme providers. Note that  for some years 'ASCERTIVA' and later 'Certsure' includes NICIEC figures and some others as well so Niciec have slightly less than that.

At no time has that figure exceeded 36,000 in recent years for NICIEC, and about 42 to 45 thousand all schemes together, and on average there are slightly  less than 2 notifications per month, per registered company. For what it achieves it is a very admin heavy scheme, and I can fully understand folk deciding to avoid notifiable works altogether if there is enough to  do to make a living with small stuff. (and may be the odd job that should have been notified but somehow was not.)

More generally work is poor quality, much like poor service in restaurants, when the customers know no better, and do not reject it. As a nation  we are quite tolerant, and it sometimes seems we half expect folk to have the wrong papers,  not to finish the job, and generally disappoint, especially with building trades.  If British customers complained in a more Germanic way we might get a better, but more expensive job, but without that I fear no amount of legislation tinkering is going to help.

(and despite assurances of 'bonfires of red tape'  (latest drivel )we seem very good at creating hurdles that are not actually an improvement.)

Mike.

It is interesting to note the numbers of part P scheme members and how many jobs they inspect and notify more generally.

A govt PDF listing year by year up to 2017.   I understand these are the figures submitted to the govt by the scheme providers. Note that  for some years 'ASCERTIVA' and later 'Certsure' includes NICIEC figures and some others as well so Niciec have slightly less than that.

At no time has that figure exceeded 36,000 in recent years for NICIEC, and about 42 to 45 thousand all schemes together, and on average there are slightly  less than 2 notifications per month, per registered company. For what it achieves it is a very admin heavy scheme, and I can fully understand folk deciding to avoid notifiable works altogether if there is enough to  do to make a living with small stuff. (and may be the odd job that should have been notified but somehow was not.)

More generally work is poor quality, much like poor service in restaurants, when the customers know no better, and do not reject it. As a nation  we are quite tolerant, and it sometimes seems we half expect folk to have the wrong papers,  not to finish the job, and generally disappoint, especially with building trades.  If British customers complained in a more Germanic way we might get a better, but more expensive job, but without that I fear no amount of legislation tinkering is going to help.

(and despite assurances of 'bonfires of red tape'  (latest drivel )we seem very good at creating hurdles that are not actually an improvement.)

Mike.