We present a SCUBA submillimetre (450 and 850{mu}m) survey of the environment of 105 IRAS point sources, selected from the Wood and Churchwell (1989ApJS...69..831W) and Kurtz et al. (1994, Cat. J/ApJS/91/659) radio ultracompact (UC) HII region surveys. We detected a total of 155 sub-mm clumps associated with the IRAS point sources and identified three distinct types of object: ultracompact cm-wave sources that are not associated with any sub-mm emission (sub-mm quiet objects), sub-mm clumps that are associated with ultracompact cm-wave sources (radio-loud clumps); and sub-mm clumps that are not associated with any known ultracompact cm-wave sources (radio-quiet clumps). 90% of the sample of IRAS point sources were found to be associated with strong sub-mm emission. We consider the sub-mm colours, morphologies and distance-scaled fluxes of the sample of sub-mm clumps and show that the sub-mm quiet objects are unlikely to represent embedded UC HII regions unless they are located at large heliocentric distances.

Cone search capability for table J/A+A/453/1003/table1 (UC HII fields observed during the survey, their central coordinates and estimated distance to the UC HIIs in each field)

Cone search capability for table J/A+A/453/1003/table2 (Identifications, coordinates, peak and integrated fluxes of each submillimetre source detected in the survey)