HC Deb 24 November 1983 vol 49 cc299-300W
Mr. Michael Forsyth

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the statutory powers under which he is authorised to make payments of any kind to non-Government bodies, including individuals, the total amount paid under each statutory power in 1982–83 and the number of staff involved in making such payments.

Mr. Jopling

My Departments make a variety of payments under a considerable number of statutory authorities. Details of these payments and of the total numbers of staff engaged by my Departments are given in Class III of Supply Estimates. Those for 1982–83 were published on 9 March 1982 (HC 214—III of 1981–82 session). Actual expenditure during that year was set out

Principal discharges of liquid radioactive waste from United Kingdom nuclear establishments, 1982
Establishment Radioactivity Discharge limit (annual equivalent), Ci● Discharges during 1982
Ci Per cent, of limit utilised
British Nuclear Fuels Limited
Sellafield Sea pipeline Total beta 300 000.00 95 352.000 32.0
Ruthenium—106 60 000.00 11 316.000 19.0
Strontium—90 30 000.00 8 628.000 29.0
Total alpha 6 000.00 769.000 13.0
Springfields Total—alpha 360.00 18.3 5.0
Total beta 12 000.00 4 709.000 39.0
Chapelcross Total activity* 700.00 112.000 16.0
Tritium 150.00 20.000 13.0
Capenhurst
Rivacre Brook Total activity† 0.04 0.014 35.0
Meols outfall Technetium—99 4.00 0.055 1.3
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
Winfrith Total activity 30 000.00 3 005.000 10.0
Ruthenium—106 9 000.00 4.9 0.05
Strontium—90 1 200.00 3.1 0.26
Total alpha 1 200.00 0.74 0.06
Harwell Total activity*‡ 240.00 20.2 2.4
Tritium 240.00 37.4 15.6
Dounreay Total activity 24 000.00 1 019.000 4.3
Strontium—90 2 400.00 159.000 6.4
Total alpha 240.00 13.000 5.3
Central Electricity Generating Board
Berkeley Total activity* 200.00 18.000 9.0
Tritium 1 500.00 47.000 3.1
Bradwell Total activity* 200.00 27.000 13.3

in the 1982–83 Appropriation Accounts (Volume 3: Class III) published on 4 November 1983 (HC 88–111 of 1983–84 session). Payments by the intervention board for agricultural produce are made under the authority of the European Communities Act 1972, but information about total expenditure by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under each of my statutory powers and the number of staff involved in each case is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.