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To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what recent discussions he has had with ICI regarding (a) child labour and (b) its fulfilment of its corporate and social responsibility.

Asked by

John Bercow (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

17 March 2006

Reference

58850; 443 c2541W;443 c2541W

House

House of Commons

Northern Ireland Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions he has had with the Government of the Republic of Ireland about (a) the pension scheme, (b) redundancy payments and (c) outstanding holiday pay entitlements for employees of the IFI/Richardsons Plant in Belfast.

Asked by

Lord Dodds of Duncairn (Democratic Unionist Party)

Answering body

Northern Ireland Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

27 November 2002

For answer on

9 December 2002

Answered on

9 December 2002

Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what discussions he has had with the Government of the Republic of Ireland about (a) the pension scheme, (b) redundancy payments and (c) outstanding holiday pay entitlements for employees of the IFI/Richardsons Plant in Belfast. [84750] Mr. Pearson: As well as meeting with Richardsons' management and Unions representing the work force, I have written to the company shareholders, including the Irish Government, expressing my concern over the treatment of the work force. I have met with ICI and a representative of the Irish Government. Furthermore I hope to meet Mary Harney TD Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment shortly. The issues relating to pensions are complex. There are four different pension schemes and the shareholders have asked the trustees of each scheme to establish the facts and options to mitigate the impact on members. The shareholders are proposing to meet with the four pension fund trustees and while the government's influence in relation to the operation of private pension schemes may be limited, I will await the outcome of this meeting with interest. In relation to redundancy payments, applications from 151 employees of Richardsons for statutory entitlement have been received by the Department for Employment and Learning. All claims will be handled and, where payable, payments processed within normal timescales. Outstanding holiday pay owed to employees forms part of the debt owed to them by their former employer and is a matter for the liquidator.

Date

9 December 2002

Reference

84750; 396 c48-9W

House

House of Commons

Northern Ireland Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions have taken place between Government departments and the owners of the IFI/Richardsons Plant in Belfast over the announcement of the plant's closure.

Asked by

Lord Dodds of Duncairn (Democratic Unionist Party)

Answering body

Northern Ireland Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

3 December 2002

Reference

84387; 395 c742-3W;395 c740W

House

House of Commons

Northern Ireland Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what representations have been made by the Government to the Government of the Irish Republic in respect of its involvement in the decision to close the IFI/Richardsons Plant in Belfast.

Asked by

Lord Dodds of Duncairn (Democratic Unionist Party)

Answering body

Northern Ireland Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

3 December 2002

Reference

84386; 395 c743W;395 c740-1W

House

House of Commons

Northern Ireland Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he plans to investigate the closure of the IFI/Richardsons Plant in Belfast; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

David Burnside (Ulster Unionist Party)

Answering body

Northern Ireland Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

2 December 2002

Reference

83001; 395 c543W;395 c542W

House

House of Commons

Trade with China and Taiwan. Minutes of evidence 27 November 2002. (Printed in HC 128)

Type

House of Commons papers; Select Committee oral evidence; Parliamentary committees

Committee

Trade and Industry Committee

Date

27 November 2002

Reference

HC 128-ii 2002/03

House

House of Commons

RIGHTS OF WORKERS AT THE BELFAST IFI/RICHARDSONS PLANT

That this House expresses grave concern at the manner of the announcement of the liquidation of the IFI/Richardson Belfast plant; calls for the local workforce to be granted their full rights to redundancy and other entitlements; demands that workers receive all of their pension entitlements; and urges relevant Ministers to...

Primary sponsor

Lord Dodds of Duncairn (Democratic Unionist Party)

Type

Early day motions

Date

13 November 2002

Reference

House

House of Commons

Are we realising our potential? Minutes of evidence 3 July 2000. (Report printed as HC 200 2000/01).

Type

House of Commons papers; Select Committee oral evidence; Parliamentary committees

Committee

Science and Technology Committee

Notes

Received 14.08.00

Date

3 July 2000

Reference

HC 466-v 1999/2000

House

House of Commons

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on derelict and contaminated land in the North West of England

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on derelict and contaminated land in the North West of England.

Lead member

Derek Twigg

Answering member

Chris Mullin

Department

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Adjournment debates

Date

13 June 2000

Reference

351 c159-79WH

House

House of Commons

Non-food crops. Science and Technology Select Committee (HL) first report in 2 volumes, with evidence. (Part 1 of 2).

Type

Select Committee reports; House of Lords papers; Parliamentary committees

Committee

Science and Technology Committee (HL)

Notes

DEBATE;LH 03 MAR 2000

Date

25 November 1999

Reference

HL 5 1999/2000

House

House of Lords

Monetary Policy of the Bank of England Select Committee (HL) report in 2 volumes with evidence.

Type

Select Committee reports; House of Lords papers; Parliamentary committees

Committee

Select Committee on the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England

Notes

DEBATE;LH 04 NOV 1999

Date

27 July 1999

Reference

HL 96 1998/99

House

House of Lords

Adjournment debate on contaminated land in Barton upon Humber

Adjournment debate on contaminated land in Barton upon Humber.

Lead member

Shona McIsaac

Answering member

Alan Meale

Department

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Adjournment debates

Date

22 March 1999

Reference

328 c135-40

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if the TRIGA fuel from Billingham to be reprocessed under Dounreay's contract with ICI has been delivered to Dounreay.

Asked by

Robert Smith (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 July 1998

Reference

316 c642W; 48035

House

House of Commons

Preparations for stage three of economic and monetary union. Minutes of evidence 10 March 1998. (Reprinted in HC 503).

Type

House of Commons papers; Select Committee oral evidence; Parliamentary committees

Committee

Treasury Committee

Date

10 March 1998

Reference

HC 503-vii 1997/98

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how much (a) public, (b) private and (c) overseas money has been spent on modifying UKAEA's D2670 plant at Dounreay Nuclear Establishment to enable the reprocessing of spent fuel from the ICI TRIGA reactor at Billingham; if she will list the...

Asked by

Roseanna Cunningham (Scottish National Party)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 March 1998

Reference

31749; 307 c637W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what are the estimated costs of work still to be carried out in relation to preparing UKAEA's D2670 plant at Dounreay Nuclear Establishment to enable the reprocessing of spent fuel from the ICI TRIGA reactor at Billingham.

Asked by

Roseanna Cunningham (Scottish National Party)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

3 March 1998

Reference

31734; 307 c530W

House

House of Commons

Simon of Highbury, Lord

Which companies, industries and issues the Minister for Competition and Consumer Affairs cannot handle due to possible conflicts of interest.

Asked by

Lord Tebbit (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 November 1997

Reference

583 c23-4WA

House

House of Lords

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

Statement on the dumping of radioactive waste at sea. - Inc ref to 297 c158-60W, 1 July 1997. (DEP/3 5302).

Asked by

Norman A Godman (Labour)

Answering body

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

For answer on

30 July 1997

Answered on

30 July 1997

Mr. Godman: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on the dumping of radioactive waste at sea. [12069] Mr. Rooker: My Department and others concerned with the disposal of radioactive waste have undertaken detailed searches of archive records relating to dumping at sea at Beaufort's Dyke and elsewhere. Details of the searches carried out so far and the findings of each Department have been placed in the Library of the House. Information was found of two further instances of radioactive waste being dumped, or possibly being dumped, in Beaufort's Dyke in addition to that reported to the House on 1 July, Official Report, columns 158-160. The first instance was identified by the Scottish Office from a reference on one paper and relates to a disposal being arranged in 1957 at Cairn Ryan, a port used for the disposal of munitions to Beaufort's Dyke, of a damaged closed caesium 137 source. There is no indication of the disposal site or any other information on the form of disposal. The level of radioactivity is described as about one quarter curie. The second instance was identified by my Department concerning the dumping in 1976 of about 10,000 tonnes of building rubble and soil from the demolition of the premises of Thorium Ltd., a company that extracted thorium from minerals and left a waste product containing enhanced levels of naturally radioactive material. The authorisation required that the average radioactivity of this demolition material should be less than 5 x 10{-4} microcuries/gm and was not to exceed 5 x 10{-3} microcuries/gm in any part. In respect of other locations not previously recognised as dump sites for radioactive waste, the Scottish Office has identified the following information: scrap from a Ferranti radioactive valve manufacturing unit was dumped by Ferranti between 1954 and 1957 in the Firth of Forth off North Queensferry. An estimate at the time put this at 7.5 mg of radium bromide at six-monthly intervals. Advice to UK Time Ltd. in 1949 to dispose of 35,000 luminised dials likely to have contained in total between 25 and 50mg radium either on land or in sealed drums at least five miles off shore. A subsequent paper suggests that such dumping continued in the North sea during the 1950s. The dumping by ICI Ltd. of two anti-static devices-- strontium 90--at the explosives disposal site off the Isle of Arran prior to 1958. The dumping in 1963 at Garroch head, on the Clyde, of material from the clear-up of a former radium factory at Balloch. In checking these historic records, Departments have in addition identified instances when liquid wastes or sludge containing small amounts of radioactivity were dumped at sea through dispersion into the water column from ships. These disposals were from the naval dockyards at Chatham and Rosyth into the North sea beyond the Thames estuary and the Firth of Forth respectively during the mid late 1960s and early 1970s; sludges from industrial sources containing enhanced natural radioactivity into the Liverpool bay area, and possibly Morecambe bay and the Humber estuary, during the early to mid 1970s; and mildly radioactive solutions from early experiments at MAFF's Lowestoft laboratory in the North sea in the late 1940s. Where possible, these reports are being following up to see whether further information can be obtained. On the evidence of the papers that have been examined, I am advised that, even using cautious assumptions, it is estimated that radiation exposures to the public following any dispersal of radioactivity in the sea would give rise to radiation dose levels well within the International Commission on Radiological Protection recommended dose limit and a small fraction of those arising from natural background radioactivity. Nevertheless, I am arranging for the National Radiological Protection Board to make an independent assessment of this information and anything further that can be found. In particular, I shall ask it to advise me of the radiological significance of the disposals and on whether there is any need for monitoring over and above that which is already undertaken. I shall report further to the House when I have received the board's advice.

Date

30 July 1997

Reference

12069; 299 c322-4W

House

House of Commons

Donoughue, Lord

Statement on what information is being made available on the dumping of radioactive waste at sea. - Includes details of dumping sites.

Asked by

Lord Peston (Labour)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

30 July 1997

Reference

582 c57-9WA

House

House of Lords

Dept of Health

How many chairmen of NHS trusts in Cheshire were previously employed by ICI.

Asked by

Gwyneth Dunwoody (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

7 February 1997

Reference

14482; 289 c761W

House

House of Commons

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