The asbestos licence register index
How many contractors hold an HSE asbestos licence, where they are registered, and which licence they hold - counted from HSE's own published list rather than estimated.
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Updated 2026-09-09; the methodology is below, and every count links to the file it was counted from.
- licence holders
- 360
By registered county
By registered county
| County | Holders |
|---|---|
| Aberdeenshire | 1 |
| Angus | 1 |
| Avon | 6 |
| Ayrshire | 1 |
| Bedfordshire | 2 |
| Buckinghamshire | 2 |
| Caithness | 1 |
| Cambridgeshire | 3 |
| Cheshire | 10 |
| Cleveland | 5 |
| Clwyd | 3 |
| Cornwall | 1 |
| Cumbria | 2 |
| Derbyshire | 12 |
| Devon | 3 |
| Dorset | 2 |
| County Durham | 4 |
| East Yorkshire | 1 |
| East Sussex | 1 |
| Essex | 63 |
| Gloucestershire | 4 |
| Grampian | 1 |
| Greater Manchester | 6 |
| Gwent | 2 |
| Gwynedd | 1 |
| Hampshire | 8 |
| Hertfordshire | 14 |
| Herefordshire | 1 |
| Isle of Wight | 1 |
| Kent | 20 |
Show all 63 countys
| County | Holders |
|---|---|
| Lanarkshire | 7 |
| Lancashire | 20 |
| Leicestershire | 3 |
| Lincolnshire | 2 |
| London | 4 |
| Mid Glamorgan | 4 |
| Middlesex | 2 |
| Merseyside | 9 |
| Morayshire | 2 |
| North Yorkshire | 7 |
| Northamptonshire | 4 |
| Norfolk | 7 |
| Nottinghamshire | 9 |
| Northumberland | 1 |
| Oxfordshire | 6 |
| Renfrewshire | 2 |
| South Glamorgan | 5 |
| Shropshire | 2 |
| Somerset | 3 |
| Staffordshire | 7 |
| Stirlingshire | 2 |
| Strathclyde | 2 |
| Suffolk | 2 |
| South Yorkshire | 11 |
| Tyne and Wear | 11 |
| West Glamorgan | 4 |
| West Sussex | 2 |
| Warwickshire | 1 |
| Wiltshire | 4 |
| West Lothian | 1 |
| Worcestershire | 4 |
| West Midlands | 17 |
| West Yorkshire | 11 |
Download the county-level dataset (CSV), free to reuse with citation.
every county the disclosable list of 8 September 2026 places a licence holder in. A county the register places no holder in has no page rather than an empty one, and sixteen holders whose county the register leaves blank are placed by their own post town.
Sources, citation and related pages
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The HSE-licensed asbestos contractors in Great Britain was 360 in the disclosable list as published on 8 September 2026, across 360 licence holders recorded in HSE.
Cite as: "Asbestos Survey Cost Asbestos Licence Register Index", updated 2026-09-09, https://asbestossurveycost.co.uk/register/.