HC Deb 25 February 1980 vol 979 cc414-5W
Mr. Hooley

asked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) what is the establishment in each of the main grades in the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate;

(2) if he will list in the Official Report the principal grades of officers in the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate and the salary range applicable to each grade;

(3) what was the shortfall of staff, by number and by percentage, in each of the main grades of the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate at the end of January;

(4) if he will list all the main sites, installations and laboratories which are subject to surveillance by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate;

(5) how many full-time qualified (a) physicists and (b) engineers employed by the Nuclear Inspectorate;

(6) what are the principal base locations of the staff of the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate and the numbers involved at each main location;

(7) what is the level of salary which a career officer in the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate might expect to attain by the age of 40 years;

(8) if he will list the type of qualified staff, such as engineers, physicists, chemists or metallurgists, most difficult to recruit into the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate.

Mr. Mayhew

I shall reply to the hon. Member as soon as possible.