§ Mr. KirkwoodTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list in theOfficial Report the temperatures used to trigger severe weather payments recorded at the Eskdalemuir weather station for each day during the last two weeks of 1990 and the first two weeks of 1991.
§ Mr. ScottA weather station will trigger if there has been a period of seven consecutive days, during which the average mean daily temperature is 0 deg. C or less.
Eskdalemuir weather station did not trigger on any day during the last two weeks of 1990, or the first two weeks of 133W 1991. The mean temperature for the seven days ending Sunday 13 January was recorded as —0.8 deg. C when the station did trigger.
Full details of average mean daily temperatures recorded at all the weather stations can be found in the Library.