If you go to the gas safe website
http://www.gassaferegister.co.uk/
and put in my postcode which is yo12 4at you will find me first and then 50 others within 1.42 miles of my address, in a town with a population of 106,000 people, which is pretty remote from other areas.
That is the qualified guys. then there are all the off duty firemen property developers diyers workers for cash while on dissability benefiters, workers for cash while on job seakers allowance, general builders who now do their opwn plumbing except the odd part of it they need us for, like when they get a leaking lead pipe.
~It's hopeless, the future is somewhere else.