Inspectorate \In*spect"or*ate\, n. Inspectorship. [R.]
In the early months, he says, local inspectors often displayed 'a different understanding of the regulations from the central inspectorate'.
The pollution inspectorate said yesterday it had received 80,000 responses but had found 'no points of substance' to cause it to reconsider the terms of the draft licence.
First, he has to launch the new national inspectorate, as yet no more than a page of statute enacted at the tail end of the last parliament in a messy compromise between the House of Lords and the then education secretary.
The inspectorate has received 15,000 communications, 9,500 of them opposing Thorp, since consultation began in mid-November.
However, satisfying the inspectorate's further questions would divert resources. Nuclear Electric said Trawsfynydd had in effect been losing about Pounds 50m a year income from electricity sales for the past two years.
Health and safety executive; railway inspectorate (12 noon).