To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give full details of all contracts awarded in the last year by Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution to private consultants, university departments and other bodies, and include the value of each contract, the research/analysis to be undertaken and the duration of the contract.
The research contracts listed in the table were commissioned by Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution during the year ending 30 June 1990.In addition, a number of short-term consultancy contracts were awarded during the same period by Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution.
Contractor
| Contract value (excluding VAT) £
| Duration (months)
| Area of work
|
| NERC | 295,000 | 24 | Nature and complexing properties of humic substances |
| NERC | 380,000 | 12 | Colloid migration studies |
| ANS | 18,880 | 6 | Management options for organic liquid waste |
| UKAEA | 119,368 | 31 | Radioactivity in air and rainwater |
| Laboratory of Government Chemist | 306,321 | 39 | Radiochemical analysis of drinking water supplies |
| ICI Tracerco | 143,299 | 39 | Radiochemical analysis of private water supplies |
| NRPB | 186,500 | 38 | Radiochemical analysis of effluents |
| ICI Tracerco | 293,856 | 39 | Environmental radioactivity monitoring programme |
| UKAEA | 85,100 | 45 | Assessment and reporting of environmental monitoring programmes |
| UKAEA | 49,100 | 12 | Artificial radioactivity in tide-washed pastures |
| Electrowatt | 144,812 | 11 | United Kingdom radioactive waste inventory |
| UKAEA | 28,800 | 6 | Pollution control at chemical incineration works |
| Environmental Resources | 35,080 | 6 | Pollution control at large glass works |
| Warren Spring Laboratory | 32,500 | 6 | Pollution control at municipal incineration works |
| Cremer & Warner | 28,100 | 6 | Pollution control at hospital incineration |
| UKAEA | 160,000 | 12 | Microbial aspects of gas generation |
| Clayton, Bostock Hill and Rigby | 25,500 | 6 | Pollution control at sewage sludge incineration works |
| National Nuclear | 41,500 | 12 | Liquid effluent treatment |
| UKAEA | 22,600 | 4 | Review of organic material in radioactive wastes |
| INTERA-ECL | 28,704 | 4 | Data requirements for groundwater modelling |
| W. S. Atkins | 74,500 | 9 | Thermodynamic detabase and geochemical modelling |
| NRPB | 20,000 | 24 | Development of atmospheric dispersion model |
| UKAEA | 328,220 | 24 | Testing of models for colloid transport |
| UKAEA | 86,700 | 11 | Technetium removal from aqueous effluents |
| UKAEA | 30,000 | 11 | Effects of radiation on wasteforms |
| UKAEA | 76,800 | 11 | Treatment of complexed radionuclides |
| University of Aberdeen | 326,460 | 11 | Effect of elevated temperatures on cement in radioactive waste isolation |
| UKAEA | 240,000 | 10 | Actinide sorption on geological materials |
| INTERA-ECL | 39,000 | 10 | Methodology for assessing disposal of wastes |
| WRC | 38,612 | 5 | Sewage sludge BPEO study |
| British Ceramic | 24,500 | 6 | Monitoring of coke oven emissions |
| IMPEL | 20,400 | 7 | Assessing industrial process emissions |