HC Deb 10 March 1999 vol 327 c254W
Mr. Caton

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list the locations at which temperature readings were taken for the cold weather payments scheme in 1998–99. [75260]

Angela Eagle

72 weather stations are being used in the scheme this winter.

A schedule of the weather stations and postcodes linked to each of them is contained in the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1998 (SI 1998 No. 2455), a copy of which is available in the Library.