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Ms. Ruddock
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list all the non-nuclear industrial sites in Scotland making authorised discharges of radioactive substances into the atmosphere.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton
[holding answer 11 March 1988]: The following are authorised by the Scottish Development Department to discharge low level gaseous waste to the atmosphere:
National Semiconductors (UK) Ltd., Larkfield Industrial Estate, Greenock.
Crowther Arts Display Ltd., 5 Hawbank Road, College Milton North, East Kilbride.
Ferranti Ltd., Dunsinane Avenue, Dundee.
Organon Laboratories Ltd., Newhouse Industrial Estate, Newhouse, Lanarkshire.
In addition the South of Scotland Electricity Board is authorised to burn, at its power stations at Longannet and Inverkip, waste oil contaminated with trace amounts of radioactivity; authorisations are held also by Aberdeen and Dundee district councils permitting them to burn combustible low-level radioactive wastes in their waste disposal incinerators.In all the cases, the limits of discharge permitted by the authorisations are very low and the quantities of radioactivity being released to atmosphere are entirely negligible in radiological terms.ICI plc in respect of the Brae B platform in the North Sea.
Population (1986)1 | Non-industrial Civil Service (1 April 1987) | |||
Region | Number ('000s) | Percentage | Number2 | Percentage |
Scotland | 5,121 | 9·3 | 50,214 | 10·1 |
Northern | 3,080 | 5·6 | 31,359 | 6·3 |
North West | 6,374 | 11·5 | 50,902 | 10·2 |
Yorkshire/Humberside | 4,899 | 8·9 | 31,055 | 6·2 |
East Midlands | 3,920 | 7·1 | 20,123 | 4·1 |
West Midlands | 5,181 | 9·4 | 29,876 | 6–0 |
East Anglia | 1,992 | 3·6 | 13,390 | 2·7 |
South East | 17,264 | 31,3 | 195,826 | 39·4 |
South West | 4,543 | 8·2 | 47,031 | 9·5 |
Wales | 2,821 | 5·1 | 27,336 | 5·5 |
Great Britain | 55,196 | 100·0 | 497,112 | 100·0 |
Source:
1. Population Estimates, Scotland, 1986; Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys Monitor PM 87/1
2. Full time equivalents.