§ Mr. Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make it his policy to press for existing EC directives on sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide to be revised to reflect World Health Organisation guidelines.
§ Mr. BaldryThe preambles to the present directives make it clear that the limit values for which they provide are based on work by the World Health Organisation.
§ Mr. Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many nitrogen oxide monitoring stations there are in the United Kingdom; what is the average number of such stations amongst the EC nations; and how many such stations there are in(a) Holland and (b) Japan.
§ Mr. BaldryMy Department funds 12 nitrogen oxide samplers in the United Kingdom, seven of which are for the purposes of the European directive on nitrogen dioxide. The number of directive sites in other EC countries is as follows
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Number Belgium 21 Germany 200 Denmark 11 Spain 15 France 85 Greece 33 Ireland 6 Italy 34 Luxemburg 4
Number Netherlands 53 Portugal 17 I understand that in 1989 there were 1,337 nitrogen oxide monitoring sites in Japan.
§ Mr. Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the sites used for the monitoring of sulphur dioxide(a) in 1982 and (b) in 1991.
§ Mr. BaldryI am arranging for a list of these sites to be placed in the Library.