HC Deb 31 October 1995 vol 265 cc176-8W
Mr. McAllion

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will provide in respect of his plan for pay delegation submitted to the Treasury(a) a description of the staff in each bargaining unit covered by the plan, distinguishing staff in HQ functions, agencies and agency candidates, and in other identifiable business units and the negotiating machinery to be put in place in each bargaining unit. [38277]

Sir John Wheeler

The pay delegation plan submitted by the Northern Ireland Office to the Treasury covers staff in grades 6 and below in the following bodies, which will in 1996 constitute a single bargaining unit:

  • THE NORTHERN IRELAND OFFICE
  • Legal Offices
  • Department of the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland
  • Crown Solicitor's Office
  • Agencies
  • Northern Ireland Prison Service (except prison officers and prison governors)
  • Compensation Agency
  • Forensic Science Agency of Northern Ireland
  • 177
  • Other Bodies
  • Police Authority for Northern Ireland (except industrial staff) Office of the Chief Electoral Officer
  • Standing Advisory Commission on Human Rights
  • Independent Commission for Police Complaints for Northern Ireland
  • Independent Assessor of Military Complaints Procedures Independent Commissioner for the Holding Centres

Proposals for discussion about pay bargaining procedures have been sent to the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance, the First Division Association, the National Union of Civil and Public Servants and the Civil and Public Services Association.

DOE automatic monitoring stations—October 1995
County name Site name Network Species measured1 Grid ref.
Avon Bristol Centre Urban O3,NOx,CO,SO2,PM10 ST594732
Bristol East Hydrocarbon VOCs ST599729
Belfast Belfast East Urban SO2 J357740
Belfast Centre Urban O3,NOx,CO,SO2,PM10 J339744
Belfast South Hydrocarbon VOCs J333726
Cheshire Glazebury Rural O3 SJ690959
Cleveland Billingham Urban NOx NZ470237
Middlesbrough Urban Affiliate O3,NOx,CO,SO2,PM10,VOCs NZ505194
Cumbria Great Dun Fell Rural O3 NY711322
Wharleycroft Rural O3 NY698247
Derbyshire Ladybower Rural O3,NOx,SO2 SK164892
Devon Yarner Wood Rural O3 SX867890
Dumfries and Galloway Eskdalemuir Rural O3 NT235028
East Sussex Lullington Heath Rural O3,NOx,SO2 TQ538016
Fermanagh Lough Navar Rural O3 IH065545
Greater London Bridge Place Urban O3,NOx,CO,SO2 TQ289788
Bexley Urban Affiliate O3,NOx,CO,SO2,PM10 TQ518763
Cromwell Road Urban NOx,CO,SO2 TQ264789
West London Urban NOx,CO TQ251788
London Bloomsbury Urban O3,NOx,CO,SO2,PM10 TQ302820
London UCL Hydrocarbon VOCs TQ299822
London Eltham Hydrocarbon VOCs TQ440747
Greater Manchester Manchester Urban NOx,CO SJ838980
Hampshire Southampton Centre Urban Hydrocarbon O3,NOx,CO,SO2,PM10,VOCs SU429121
Highland Strath Vaich Rural O3,NOx,SO2 NH347750
Humberside Hull Centre Urban O3,NOx,CO,SO2,PM10 SE105293
Leicestershire Leicester Centre Urban O3,NOx,CO,SO2,PM10 SK587040
Lothian Bush Rural O3 NT245635
Edinburgh Centre Urban O3,NOx,CO,SO2,PM10 NT254738
Edinburgh Med. Sch Hydrocarbon VOCs NT257730
Merseyside Liverpool Centre Urban O3,NOx,CO,SO2,PM10 SJ349908
Liverpool Speke Urban VOCs SJ438835
North Yorkshire High Muffles Rural O3 SE776939
Nottinghamshire Bottesford Rural O3 SK797376
Oxfordshire Harwell Rural O3 SU474863
Powys Aston Hill Rural O3 SO298901
South Glamorgan Cardiff Centre Urban O3,NOx,CO,SO2,PM10 ST184765
Cardiff East Hydrocarbon VOCs ST193773
South Yorkshire Sheffield Urban NOx,CO SK403905
Barnsley 12 Urban SO2 SE342067
Strathclyde Glasgow Urban NOx,CO NS595653
Suffolk Sibton Rural O3 TM364719
Tyne and Wear Sunderland Urban SO2 NZ398570
Newcastle Centre Urban O3,NOx,CO,SO2,PM10 NZ251649
West Glamorgan Swansea Centre Urban Affiliate O3,NOx,CO,SO2,PM10 SS655931
West Midlands Walsall Urban NOx SO995985
Birmingham Centre Urban O3,NOx,CO,SO2,PM10 SP064868
Birmingham East Urban Affiliate Hydrocarbon O3,NOx,CO,SO2,PM10VOCs SP116889
West Yorkshire Leeds Centre Urban O3,NOx,CO,SO2,PM10 SE299343
Leeds Potternewton Hydrocarbon VOCs SE307367
1 VOCs=Volatile organic compounds
O3=ozone
NOx=oxides of nitrogen
SO2=sulphur dioxide
PM10=fine particles

Details of the non-automatic smoke and sulphur dioxide sites (approximately 225 sites) are available in "UK Smoke and Sulphur Dioxide Monitoring Networks Summary Tables for April 1993–March 1994".

Details of non-automatic nitrogen dioxide sites (approximately 1,100 sites) are available in "UK Nitrogen Dioxide Survey results for the first year—1993".

Details of the Department's other non-automatic networks (metals, acid deposition, rural sulphur dioxide and toxic organic micro pollutants; 86 sites) are available in "Air Pollution in the UK: 1993/94".

Copies of all three reports are available from the National Environmental Technology Centre, Culham, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3DB.

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