HC Deb 18 November 1986 vol 105 c129W
Mr. Barron

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give the most recent figures available for sulphur dioxide emissions (in millions tonnes) from the USSR, United Kingdom, Italy, East Germany, West Germany and France.

Mr. Waldegrave

[pursuant to his reply, 17 November 1986, c. 47.]: Following are estimates for 1983, the latest year for which comparable figures are available as total emissions, expressed in millions of tonnes of sulphur dioxide, and per capita emissions, expressed in kilos per capita:

million tonnes
Total emissions
USSR 12.00
United Kingdom 3.69
Italy 3.80
East Germany 40.0
West Germany 2.75
France 2.03

Kilos per capita
Per capita emissions
USSR
United Kingdom 66
Italy 67
East Germany 239
West Germany 45
France 37

The figure for the USSR applies only to that part of the country which lies inside the monitoring grid of the UNECE co-operative programme for the monitoring and evaluation of the long-range transmission of air pollution in Europe (EMEP), and so it is not possible to calculate per capita emissions.