§ Mr. Hardyasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what consultations he has carried out or arranged in order to consider recent changes and forecasts of changes in the pattern of British 211W weather and its likely economic and social consequences.
§ Mr. Denis HowellMy Department is in constant touch with the Meteorological Office. The present view of that office is that weather in the United Kingdom during the last year or two has not been out of line with the variations which might be expected from long-term records; but my Department has placed contracts with the Meteorological Office and with the University of East Anglia for studies of the feasibility of predicting future longterm changes in rainfall and air temperature over the United Kingdom.