§ 51. Mr. John Huntasked the Secretary of State for Defence what is the annual cost to public funds of the long-range weather forecasting unit of the Meteorological Office.
§ Mr. WellbelovedThe monthly long-range weather forecasts are produced as one task of the unit in the Meteorological Office responsible for research into climate and climatic change. The research related specifically to monthly forecasts and ways of improving them costs about £110,000 per annum, and this work naturally includes the production of monthly 129W forecasts by the best methods now available. The cost of preparing these forecasts for issue to the public is about £6,000 per annum.