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Table 2: Nitrogen dioxide modelled data-England, 2007
Zone/agglomeration Road length/km where annual mean NO 2 >40 microgrammes/m( 3) (roadside locations) Area/km( 2) where annual mean NO 2 > 40 microgrammes/m( 3) (urban background locations)

Greater London Urban Area

1,600

162

West Midlands Urban Area

385

5

Greater Manchester Urban Area

426

-

West Yorkshire Urban Area

162

-

Tyneside

76

-

Liverpool Urban Area

130

-

Sheffield Urban Area

105

-

Nottingham Urban Area

53

-

Bristol Urban Area

42

-

Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton

7

-

Leicester Urban Area

52

-

Portsmouth Urban Area

24

-

Teesside Urban Area

18

-

The Potteries

34

-

Bournemouth Urban Area

11

-

Reading/Wokingham Urban Area

19

-

Coventry/Bedworth

17

-

Kingston upon Hull

32

-

Southampton Urban Area

23

1

Birkenhead Urban Area

17

-

Southend Urban Area

11

-

Preston Urban Area

6

-

Eastern

131

6

South West

77

-

South East

197

3

East Midlands

104

-

North West and Merseyside

279

-

Yorkshire and Humberside

260

-

West Midlands

90

-

North East

69

-


North Sea: Fishing Catches

Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 22 January 2009, Official Report, column 1590, on fishing catches, whether the Lithuanian and Polish vessels referred to were entitled to fish in North sea fishing grounds prior to their countries' accession to the European Union. [287856]

Huw Irranca-Davies: The catch statistics for Polish and Lithuanian landings from the North sea provided in my answer of 22 January 2009, Official Report, column 1590, relate to landings in 2006. Both Poland and Lithuania joined the European Union in 2004 and therefore were members at that time. Access to North sea fish quota is determined by historic rights or else the countries in question would be required to swap in or purchase quota to access the fishery.

Oil: Pollution

Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many incidents of oil pollution have been reported in each enumeration area (a) in each year since 1997 and (b) in 2009 to date; and how many of these incidents have resulted in prosecutions. [286299]

Jim Fitzpatrick: The following table shows the number of reported incidents received by the Environment Agency since 1997. The Environment Agency's national incident recording system began to be used in 2001. It is not possible to access information broken down into each enumeration area prior to 2001 without incurring disproportionate cost.

Number of oil pollution incidents (Category 1-4)

1997

5,542

1998

5,308

1999

5,381

2000

6,215

2001

5,684


The following table shows the number of reported incidents received by each Environment Agency region since 2002. This includes incidents from category 1-4. Category 1 incidents are the most serious, category 2 are significant but less severe, category 3 are relatively minor and category 4 are unsubstantiated incidents.


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Region 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009( 1)

Anglian

761

706

687

591

518

502

432

195

Midlands

1217

973

811

605

644

619

609

264

North East

466

520

518

476

347

338

308

161

North West

525

442

333

331

242

235

214

95

Southern

552

539

452

389

361

313

292

125

South West

644

576

613

644

618

540

451

288

Thames

740

590

556

539

452

457

383

174

EA Wales

256

272

285

344

305

287

233

145

Total

5,161

4,618

4,255

3,919

3,487

3,291

2,922

1,447

(1) January to June.

The following table shows the number of prosecutions from oil pollution incidents since 2001. This information has been provided by the Environment Agency's national enforcement database in tandem with the information above. On that basis information prior to 2001 is not available.

In cases where a prosecution is not the most appropriate course of action, the alternatives of a caution or warning will be considered. A warning is a written notification that, in the Environment Agency's opinion, an offence has been committed. It will be recorded and may be referred to in subsequent proceedings.

There is a lag between incident and prosecution, which may well be in excess of 12 months depending on the type of offence and its complexity.

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009( 1)

Anglian

3

0

0

1

6

2

4

4

0

Midlands

3

2

5

4

8

5

5

3

3

North East

0

0

5

3

8

6

4

8

11

North West

1

0

3

2

3

2

4

1

0

South West

4

3

4

4

5

7

10

9

1

Southern

1

0

0

0

1

2

2

0

2

Thames

0

0

5

6

3

5

8

3

0

Wales

0

1

0

2

0

3

4

0

2

Total

12

6

22

22

34

32

41

28

19

(1) To date.

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