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Mr. Grist : I refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, North (Mr. Jones) on 3 April, which indicated the community charges set by Welsh local authorities and the standard spending assessments attributed to them. The detailed political composition of Welsh councils is given on page 704 of the "Municipal Yearbook 1990".
Second Homes
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what information he has as to the policy of each Welsh district council with regard to the level of multiplier for the standard community charge in respect of second homes.
Mr. Peter Walker : The information is not yet available. I intend shortly to collect information about the use made by charging authorities of their discretion to specify property classes and maximum multipliers for the standard charge. This will include information about second homes.
Local Authority Debt
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was the total amount of debt incurred by each Welsh county and district council for the lastest year for which figures are available.
Mr. Grist : Information on total debt incurred by each local authority in any one particular financial year is not held centrally. Information on outstanding loan debt at 31 March of each year is, however, available and figures relating to 31 March 1989 are set out in the table :
|c|Total outstanding loan debt at 31 March 1989|c|
£000
|£
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Alyn and Deeside |35,871
Colwyn |24,197
Delyn |28,977
Glyndwr |17,992
Rhuddlan |17,891
Wrexham Maelor |65,882
Carmarthen |48,337
Ceredigion |34,267
Dinefwr |22,083
Llanelli |37,174
Preseli Pembrokeshire |45,981
South Pembroke |34,248
Blaenau Gwent |119,438
Islwyn |71,771
Monmouth |45,504
Newport |155,377
Torfaen |84,973
Aberconwy |20,033
Arfon |33,794
Dwyfor |14,108
Meirionnydd |17,615
Ynys Mon |52,687
Cynon Valley |54,472
Merthyr Tydfil |61,333
Ogwr |104,728
Rhondda |122,480
Rhymney Valley |88,356
Taff Ely |70,250
Brecknock |27,929
Montgomeryshire |22,495
Radnorshire |12,892
Cardiff |214,807
Vale of Glamorgan |57,669
Lliw Valley |46,994
Neath |42,151
Port Talbot |33,515
Swansea |171,543
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Total Districts |2,159,814
Clwyd |106,125
Dyfed |82,098
Gwent |106,015
Gwynedd |54,383
Mid Glamorgan |21,820
Powys |43,571
South Glamorgan |96,180
West Glamorgan |113,906
Dyfed Powys Joint Police Authority |4,041
North Wales Joint Police Authority |1,720
South Wales Joint Police Authority |6,060
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Total Counties |635,919
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Total Wales |2,795,733
Departmental Achievements
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give details of the main achievements of his Department since June 1987.
Mr. Peter Walker : Unemployment in Wales has fallen for 46 consecutive months (to March 1990), currently standing at 83,900 (6.4 per cent.), compared to 152,700 (12.3 per cent.) in May 1987--a drop of 68,800 (5.9 percentage points). The current rate of 6.4 per cent. is lower than the EC average and many of the UK's main European competitors. It is also the lowest rate since May 1980. The current total of 83,900 is the lowest since July 1980. At December 1989, the civilian work force in employment in Wales stood at 1,215,000, the highest ever.
Over 50,622 people have started training on employment training since the programme was launched in September 1988. A total of 53,972 young people have entered YTS since May 1987. We continue to provide a YTS place for every young person who seeks one.
The White Paper, "Training for Employment", published in December 1988 set out a framework for modernising and developing our training system. To assist me in meeting this challenge I set up the training, enterprise and education advisory group. One of its main tasks has been to advise on the establishment of training and enterprise councils in Wales. TECs are an exciting development which offer the prospect of a move to a locally planned and delivered training strategy. We now
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have a complete network of TECs in development covering the whole of Wales and I expect these to be operational by the end of the year.Development funding has been awarded to compacts in south Glamorgan, mid and west Glamorgan and Clwyd.
Since 1 June 1987, a total of 295 inward investment projects have been secured for Wales promising some 25,000 new jobs and involving a capital investment of some £1.75 billion. Among the largest projects are those announced by Ford, Bosch, TSB and National Provident Institution. As part of the inward investment effort, I and the Minister of State have between us undertaken 11 visits overseas. Since my appointment in June 1987, nearly 3,500 offers of grant assistance have been made to businesses in Wales. Payments of nearly £97 million have been made with related additional/safeguarded employment of over 20,000. It is expected that over 72,000 jobs will actually be created or safeguarded by projects which have been grant-aided under regional incentive schemes.
In recent weeks a co-operation agreement has been signed with Baden- Wurttemberg, Germany's most dynamic region. This will enable a great deal of activity to take place in the fields of company collaboration, inward investment and joint research which will bring considerable benefit to Wales in the years to come.
Since I became Secretary of State, the Welsh Office has greatly increased its emphasis on helping business in Wales to export. This initiative has been highlighted by three successful export missions led by myself and by the Minister of State to the Soviet Union (1988), Spain and Portugal (1989) and Saudi Arabia (1990). The last of these alone netted orders worth £7.5 million for the Welsh companies participating.
At £150 million the Welsh Development Agency's budget for 1990-91 is the highest ever in both cash and real terms and is over 50 per cent. above the 1987 level.
Nearly £99 million at today's prices has been committed to the land reclamation programme in Wales over the past three years. The programme is one of the largest and most sustained in Europe and will see the eradication of almost all visually intrusive dereliction in Wales by the mid-1990s.
Expenditure on the Welsh Development Agency's property development activities has also more than doubled since 1987 to £72 million in 1990-91. Over 1 million sq ft of new factory floor space has been provided in each of the last three years capable of accommodating up to 9,000 jobs. Factory lettings have also been at record levels with over 2 million sq ft let each year. Over the same period the private sector has also provided 715,000 sq ft of development on agency sites.
Welsh businesses have responded extremely well to Enterprise Wales, since its launch in January 1988. The consultancy grants available under the initiative have proved particularly popular with nearly 1, 800 projects commissioned so far.
In addition, a number of other initiatives have been taken to strengthen Welsh industry. These include the craft initiative and the "Wales Land of Quality" emblem to promote a coherent image of Wales and its products at home and abroad. To date more than 100 companies have adopted the emblem.
Since Cardiff Bay development corporation was established in 1987 to regenerate the former commercial centre of the city the Government have made available, or
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have announced, over £150 million of grant in aid to enable the corporation to achieve its task. To date the corporation has acquired over 500 acres of land ; completed detailed area planning briefs for key locations ; commissioned detailed design of the barrage across the harbour mouth ; made available a prestigious 120 acre site for business, industrial and leisure-related development and undertaken a large number of environmental, infrastructure and community schemes. In June 1988 I launched a massive three-year programme of action designed to improve economic, environmental and social conditions in the south Wales valleys. Expenditure in key activities involving the promotion of investment, the creation of jobs and environmental improvement in the valleys is expected to total some £500 million over the first three years of the programme. This is expected to stimulate private sector investment of up to £1 billion. I can confirm that unemployment in the valleys fell by some 10,600 between June 1988 and March 1990, at a faster rate than in Wales or the United Kingdom as a whole. In June 1989 I announced the extension of the valleys programme for a further two years until the end of 1992-93.As work progresses in completing the £550 million project to dual the A55 from Bangor to Chester, major opportunities for growth and development are emerging. I highlighted this in the document "A55--The Road of Opportunity", published in December 1989, which set out the framework for a whole range of policies and proposals that will further benefit north Wales. The Government will continue to encourage a positive response from the public and private sectors to ensure that the development opportunities are taken to enhance economic, social and cultural life in north Wales.
Since 1987-88 there have been 34 approvals totalling £14.123 million of urban development grant throughout Wales. This represents some £66.309 million of private investment and is expected to create a total of 2,300 permanent and 1,180 temporary jobs. In addition, around 448 residential units will be provided.
Since April 1989 there have been 14 urban investment grant approvals totalling £7.631 million of grant. This represents some £24.065 million of private investment and is expected to create 935 new permanent jobs together with 455 temporary construction jobs. Some 200 residential units will also be provided.
The £29.187 million allocated under the urban programme for the current financial year represents a 26 per cent. increase over that allocated in 1987-88 (£23.1 million) and 19 per cent. above the £24.5 million allocated in 1988-89.
A £33 million European regional development fund (ERDF) programme for mid-Glamorgan has been successfully completed and another worth £108 million for Dyfed, Gwynedd and Powys is well under way. Two further integrated development operation programmes (ERDF and European social fund) for Clwyd and industrial south Wales worth £23 million and £59 million respectively have recently been approved by the Commission and are now being implemented.
Recently, 11 areas in south Wales were accepted by the European Commission as eligible for the RECHAR initiative, which is to provide £225 million across the Community over four years to aid areas with recent large numbers of job losses in coal mining. The list of eligible
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areas, which was announced on 19 April, includes the majority of the Welsh candidate areas the Department initially proposed. Grants totalling some £1.4 million have been awarded to firms in Wales for the marketing and processing of agricultural produce under European Community regulations 355/77.On 1 January 1988 the designated Cambrian mountains environmentally sensitive area (ESA) was extended by some 80,000 hectares and some 39,700 hectares of the Lleyn peninsula was designated as an ESA. The scheme aims to promote the co-existence of conservation and efficient farming in areas of national environmental significance perceived to be at risk from increasingly intensive methods of production. The reform of the sheepmeat regime agreed at the July 1989 Agricultural Council represented a good deal for Welsh sheep producers. The new regime provides them with a clear basis for the future and improves their competitive position with their continental counterparts and prospects for exporting.
In 1989 we took full advantage of devaluation of the green pound and paid the suckler cow premium at the highest permissible rate, including the maximum top-up from national funds. As a result, the rate was increased from £33.40 to £47.43 per cow (42 per cent.). This was worth £7.7 million to producers in Wales in the 1989-90 scheme year.
Over 50,300 home improvement grant schemes for private sector dwellings have been completed since June 1987 with a value of £160 million. In the same period £246 million has been spent on the renovation of local authority housing stock.
Since June 1987 more than 7,800 dwellings in Wales have been improved under enveloping schemes at a cost in excess of £62 million.
Since the valleys action programme was launched in June 1988 targets for the number of homes in enveloping and block schemes have been exceeded-- 2,656 in 1988-89 against a target of 2,000 and 2,749 in 1989-90 against a target of 2,500.
The new renovation grant regime arrangements which I have introduced will ensure that assistance goes to those in greatest need. To get the new system off to a good start I have already announced that £75 million has been allocated and that additional resources will be made available to district councils in Wales should that be necessary.
I have now incorporated our very successful priority estates programme in our new housing options Wales (HOW) programme which was announced in January. It is a package of measures designed to support improvements in local authority housing management, to focus upon service improvement and customer care, and to provide new opportunities for tenants' groups. It includes a new small grants scheme to fund people and projects developing better service delivery ; a training and information service, and, prospectively, the re-establishment, with a new remit and better support, of the housing management advisory panel for Wales.
At the end of last year I launched, through the Development Board for Rural Wales, an experimental flexi-ownership scheme, which enables the board's tenants to buy their homes at a weekly outlay broadly the same as their existing rent. On 11 April the first two families in Wales bought their homes under this scheme.
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Tenants' choice is now in force in Wales, providing an important new right for council tenants. Housing for Wales will work to ensure that those who wish to exercise this right have every opportunity to do so.The National Health Service in Wales is treating more patients than ever before. The successful introduction of general management into the National Health Service in Wales has now been completed and effective mechanisms for manpower resource planning, education, training and management have been established.
In 1988 a corporate management programme for the National Health Service in Wales was produced and published and the Welsh health planning forum was set up. The forum has produced a "Statement of Strategic Intent and Direction for the National Health Service in Wales".
Two treatment centres have been established to shorten hospital waiting times ; one at Bridgend for hernias and varicose veins, and one near Cardiff for hip and knee replacements.
The new Prince Philip hospital, Llanelli, has been completed along with major development schemes at the Llandough, Morriston, and Royal Gwent hospitals, at a capital cost of £55 million (cash prices). Improvements in regional services have included a new bone marrow tissue typing laboratory in Cardiff ; a new paediatric cardiac unit at the University Hospital of Wales (to be completed this year) ; two new subsidiary renal units at Cardiff and Merthyr Tydfil ; and the provision of computerised tomography scanners in various locations throughout Wales.
Substantial progress has been made under the all-Wales strategy for the development of services for people with a mental handicap, supported by significant increases in funding.
In June 1989 the mental illness strategy was launched to promote a more responsive, locally and community-based service for treating and supporting mental illness sufferers.
Significant progress has also been made under the initiative on the care of the elderly in Wales in stimulating service providers to review their methods. Approval has been given for the funding of 60 demonstration projects, a number of which involve partnership between the statutory and voluntary sectors.
Current expenditure on education, excluding school meals and milk, was 13.6 per cent. more in real terms in 1987-88 than in 1979-80. In the same period pupil numbers fell by 14.6 per cent. and the pupil : teacher ratio improved by 5.7 per cent.
Expenditure per pupil thus rose overall from £910 to £1,216--34 per cent. Local authority capital expenditure on education has increased in real terms by 18.9 per cent. This is a significant increase at a time when pupil numbers have been falling and thus the basic need for new schools has been at a very low level.
I have strengthened financial support for the Welsh language. Direct Government financial support has increased by 75 per cent. since 1987 to £5.9 million. In 1988 I established the Welsh Language Board to find practical solutions to the everyday problems facing Welsh speakers.
The Welsh language now has, for the first time, a firm statutory place in the school curriculum for pupils from five to 16 in Wales within the national curriculum. I believe that the decision to include Welsh as part of the national curriculum will have a significant impact on the language for many years to come.
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The national curriculum is being introduced progressively into the schools of Wales. Mathematics, science and English have already begun. Welsh and technology will be introduced from September 1990 ; other subjects in 1991 and 1992.I have undertaken that the national curriculum should be responsive to the distinctive history and culture of Wales. All national curriculum documentation is being provided in Welsh and English. Separate orders will be made to ensure that children in Wales study Welsh as well as British history.
I have developed an initiative to introduce the teaching of the Japanese language into secondary schools in Wales.
I have had meetings with local education authorities in the valleys programme area to discuss ways of improving links between schools and industry, to ensure that pupils learn about the wide range of employment opportunities available to them.
Schemes for the local management of schools have been formally approved for each of the LEAs in Wales.
The number of students on courses of higher education in the Welsh public sector institutions has risen by 5 per cent. from 14,700 in 1987 to 15,500 today. During the same period the number of students on courses of initial teacher training in Wales rose by 20 per cent. from 2,621 in 1987 to 3,140 today.
I have initiated measures to simplify and improve the planning system and to speed up its operation, while ensuring that it continues to protect and enhance the environment. These have brought about reductions in the time taken for handling inspectors' appeals of nine weeks (inquiries) and five weeks (written representations). Cadw : Welsh Historic Monuments has increased revenue by 41 per cent. and attendance by 8.5 per cent. at ancient monuments in my care during the three-year period ending March 1990.
"Roads in Wales 1989--Progress and Plans for the 1990s", which I published in April, demonstrates that a high level of investment is continuing in roads in Wales. Thirteen trunk road schemes have been completed since June 1987, totalling over 28 miles. Work is in progress on a further 11 schemes comprising about 25 miles. Work has started on four new schemes under transport grant arrangements ; three new schemes, all in west Glamorgan, were accepted for start in 1989-90 and the Newbridge/Maesycymmer improvement in Gwent has been approved for start in 1990-91.
Agricultural Diversification
Mr. Geraint Howells : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he has any plans to revise the planning powers of the national park authorities in Wales to help farmers to diversify ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Grist : My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for the Environment and I are reviewing planning policy guidance note No. 7, which describes the contribution that the planning system can make to the rural environment by providing a mechanism for balancing the requirements of development--including fostering the diversification of the rural economy-- and the continuing need to protect the countryside in the national parks and elsewhere.
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Uniform Business Rate
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what representations he has received about the fact that empty properties lent to charities for short periods without charge result in the owner of the property being assessed for the full uniform business rate for the financial year ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Grist : I have received no such representations.
The owners of unoccupied property are, unless the property is exempt, required to pay rates at 50 per cent. of the liability that would apply if the property were occupied. If a property subject to empty property rates is temporarily occupied for fewer than six weeks, and then again becomes unoccupied, the owners' liability at the concessionary empty property rate continues to apply.
Pembroke Dock
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on the financial assistance provided to Pembroke dock by the Welsh Office since 1979.
Mr. Roberts [holding answer 24 April 1990] : The total financial assistance provided by the Welsh Office and non-departmental public bodies funded by the Department is £19,325,203 made up as follows :
|£
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Welsh Office:
Urban Development Grant |725,000
Urban Programme |254,594
Coast Protection Act Grants |35,155
Industrial Development Act:
(i) provision of sewage |7,529
(ii) roadworks |41,546
Regional Selective Assistance-offers accepted |396,000
Regional Development Grant (II)-offers made |4,135,000
Regional Enterprise Grants:
Investment Grants-offers made |66,000
Innovation Grants-offers made |15,000
Payments made to South Pembrokeshire District
Council for lost rate revenue foregone in the
Pembroke Dock sites of the Milford Haven
Enterprise Zone |1,737,490
European Regional Development Fund |3,025,080
Funding for Projects of Regional or National
Importance |2,450,000
Sports Council for Wales |50,065
Housing Corporation/Housing for Wales/Tai Cymru |1,857,744
Wales Tourist Board |25,000
Welsh Development Agency:
Land Reclamation Schemes-Public Sector |1,336,000
Land Reclamation Schemes-Private Sector |721,000
Environmental Improvement |30,000
Urban Renewal |40,000
Rural Conversion Grant |46,000
Factory construction |1,953,000
Investments |378,000
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Total |19,325,203
ENVIRONMENT
Short Outfalls
Ms. Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his answer of 3 April, Official Report, column 565, if he will list the 344 short outfalls
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which discharge to coastal or estuarial waters, together with the local authority environmental health department responsible for each.Mr. Heathcoat-Amory : Detailed information on the 344 outfalls referred to in my answer of 3 April to the hon. Member for Gower (Mr. Wardell), Official Report, column 565, is not held centrally.
EC Environment Ministers
Dr. Thomas : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what matters were discussed at the meeting of European Community Environment Ministers at Ashford castle on 20 to 21 April.
Mr. Trippier : I represented the United Kingdom at this informal conference.
Ministers discussed the implications for the environment of the completion of the internal market and related issues. These included the implications of economic growth, the avoidance of trade barriers, the integration of environmental considerations into other areas of Community policy, and the scope for using economic and fiscal measures as instruments of environmental policy.
Community relations with eastern European countries and with EFTA were also discussed. Ministers considered information from the European Commission about the state of the environment in eastern and central Europe, and identified a number of areas for discussion at a meeting with their counterparts from those countries to be held in Dublin on 16 June.
Industrial Waste
Dr. Thomas : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if his Department will be represented at the conference on industrial waste water treatment, to be held in London on 7 to 8 June.
Hazardous Substances
Dr. Thomas : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what response he has made to the European Commission proposal for a Council directive amending directive 76/464/EFC on pollution caused by certain dangerous substances discharged into the aquatic environment of the Community (COM[909], final) issued on 8 February.
Mr. Heathcoat-Amory : The Government's response was set out in an explanatory memorandum which was placed in the Vote Office on 19 March.
Local Government Legislation
Mr. Gould : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what further plans he has to introduce local government legislation in this Session ; what that legislation will cover ; how much of it will be retrospective in effect ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Chris Patten : I refer the hon. Member to the answer by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment of 30 March to my hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Wight (Mr. Field), Official Report, Vol. 170, column 346.
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UN Youth Forum on the Environment
Dr. Thomas : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what involvement his Department will have in the special youth forum on the environment at the United Nations in New York on 11 May.
Mr. Trippier : The Department of the Environment is not involved in the special youth forum. However, this is a United Nations environment programme event and therefore my Department fully supports it.
Environment Conference, York
Dr. Thomas : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he, or any Ministers or officials of his Department, attended the conference on the state of the environment in Yorkshire and Humberside held at York university on 2 April.
Mr. Trippier : The conference was in fact held on 20 April. The Department was not represented. However, my officials are being kept informed of developments by the conference organisers.
Local Government Finance
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the practice of local authorities charging a double standard community charge for owners of second homes ; and whether he will consider extending transitional relief to these charge payers who would have been eligible had they been paying a personal community charge.
Mr. David Hunt : Charging authorities are required to set a multiplier for the standard charge of either 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5 or 2 times the personal community charge for the area. We have prescribed nine classes of property where no standard charge is payable and two classes of property where the multiplier may not exceed one times the personal charge. In addition local authorities have wide discretion to specify further classes of property in respect of which a different multiplier from the one generally applied may be set. Many authorities have made good use of this discretion. I am concerned, however, that other authorities have not and, if necessary, we will consider further central prescription for 1991-92. I do not think it necessary to extend transitional relief to standard charge properties. However, individuals who are subject to the standard charge may be eligible to receive transitional relief on their personal community charge by virtue of their sole or main residence.
Atmospheric Conditions (Monitoring)
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give figures for each region's estimated methane emissions in 1988 by emission source consistent with the United Kingdom figures given in table 2.12 of the latest "Digest of Environmental Protection and Water Statistics."
Mr. Trippier : This information is not available.
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will give figures for nitrogen dioxide concentrations recorded at each of Warren Spring laboratory's 11 sites in the latest available year ;
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(2) if he will give the number of occasions hourly average tropospheric ozone concentrations in excess of 60ppb were recorded by each of his Department's 19 sites in the latest available year ; (3) if he will give figures on the acidity of rain recorded at each of his Department's 32 sites for the latest available year.Mr. Trippier : United Kingdom monitoring network data for 1989 are given in tables A (NO ), B (ozone) and C (acidity of rain). Of the NO sites, all except Cromwell road and Stevenage are in the EC NO directive monitoring network set up to meet the requirements of EC directive 85/203/EEC.
WSL also operates three rural NO monitoring sites. Results for a full year are not yet available. Measurements made so far indicate concentrations are of the order of 10 to 15 parts per billion by volume (ppb) annual average and 30 to 50 ppb 98th percentile of hourly averages.
The locations of the sites are described in the digest of environmental protection statistics, No. 12, 1989 and in the second report of the United Kingdom review group on acid rain, 1987, copies of which have been placed in the Library of the House.
|c|Table A-NO2:|c|
Site |Annual average |98th percentile
|(ppb) |(ppb)
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Central London |37 |81
West London |42 |112
Glasgow |26 |61
Manchester |25 |61
Walsall |29 |58
Billingham |21 |57
Cromwell Road |43 |100
Stevenage |24 |55
|c|Table B-ozone:|c|
Site |Exceedances
|of 60 ppb
|hourly means
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Stevenage |85
Central London |74
Sibton |212
Aston Hill |143
Lullington Heath |401
Strath Vaich |28
High Muffles |184
Lough Navar |74
Yarder Wood |360
Ladybower |173
Harwell |170
Bottesford |82
Bush |63
Eskdalemuir |99
Great Dun Fell |204
Glazebury |129
|c|Table C-acidity of rain-acidity of deposited rain adjusted for|c|
|c|rainfall amount|c|
Site |Precipitation weight-
|ed mean acidity
|(microgramme
|equivalents per litre)
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Achanarras |25
Strath Vaigh Dam |13
River Mharcaidh |20
Glen Dye |36
Balquhidder |20
Whiteadder |35
Eskdalemuir |20
Redesdale |32
Loch Dee |15
Cow Green Reservoir |23
Bannisdale |24
High Muffles |55
Thorganby |84
Jenny Hurn |64
Driby |47
Wardlow Hay Cop |37
Beddgelert |15
Bottesford |48
Plynlimon |14
Stoke Ferry |40
Preston Montford |36
Llyn Brianne |19
Tycanol Wood |18
Woburn |37
Flatford Mill |35
Compton |25
Barcombe Mills |15
Yarner Wood |20
Goonhilly |19
Lough Navar |10
Hillsborough Forest |13
Isle of Man |24
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give figures for each region's estimated carbon dioxide emissions in 1988 by emission source consistent with the United Kingdom figures given in table 2.11 of the latest "Digest of Environmental Protection and Water Statistics".
Mr. Trippier : This information is not available.
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give figures for sulphur dioxide concentrations in each region in the latest available year.
Mr. Trippier : The basic urban monitoring network data, for April 1988 to March 1989, analysed by region, are given in the table :
Region |Number of |Concentration - micro-
|sites with |grammes per standard
|valid |cubic metre of air
|results
|SO2 |Smoke
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Scotland |13 |27 |12
North |12 |30 |16
North West |25 |39 |14
Yorkshire-Humberside |21 |43 |21
East Midlands |11 |43 |20
West Midlands |8 |37 |20
Wales |6 |19 |11
East Anglia |2 |28 |12
London |11 |41 |17
South East |9 |31 |12
South West |5 |23 |11
Northern Ireland |4 |46 |27
United Kingdom |126 |36 |16
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give figures for each region's estimated nitrogen oxides emissions in 1988 by emission source consistent with the United Kingdom figures given in table 2.6 of the latest "Digest of Environmental Protection and Water Statistics."
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Mr. Trippier : Estimates of emissions of nitrogen oxides are not made by region.
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give figures for each region's estimated sulphur dioxide emissions in 1988 by emission source consistent with the United Kingdom figures given in table 2.3 of the latest "Digest of Environmental Protection and Water Statistics."
Mr. Trippier : Estimates of emissions of sulphur dioxide are not made by region.
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