asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give (a) the daily mean temperature and (b) the weekly mean temperature for the weather stations used by his Department for the week beginning Sunday 25 January.
The Department receives information from the Meteorological Office in respect of seven-day periods beginning each Monday. The information requested for the week commencing Monday 26 January is as follows:
Weather Station
| Daily averages
| Weekly Average
| ||||||
Monday
| Tuesday
| Wednesday
| Thursday
| Friday
| Saturday
| Sunday
| ||
| Southampton Weather Centre | 4·9 | 4·2 | 3·9 | 2·4 | 0·1 | 0·2 | 1·0 | 2·4 |
| Stansted | 2·5 | 1·6 | 1·6 | 0·7 | -2·1 | -1·6 | -1·6 | 0·1 |
| Tynemouth (Sunderland) | 3·9 | 3·1 | 2·7 | 2·9 | 0·4 | -1·4 | -0·6 | 1·6 |
| Watnall (Derby) | 4·1 | 1·4 | 1·7 | 2·3 | -1·7 | -2·5 | -1·3 | 0·6 |
| Wattisham (Ipswich) | 2·5 | 1·4 | 1·6 | 0·1 | -2·0 | -1·2 | -1·3 | 0·2 |
| Whitby Coastguard | 3·7 | 2·7 | 2·8 | 2·4 | -0·1 | 0·3 | 0·9 | 1·8 |
| Wyton (Cambridge) | 3·1 | 1·5 | 2·6 | -0·3 | -2·0 | -3·2 | -1·5 | 0·0 |
| Yeovilton (Yeovil) | 3·5 | 3·2 | 2·5 | -0·7 | -0·9 | -2·3 | -0·4 | 0·7 |
Wales
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| Aberporth (Aberystwyth) | 4·7 | 2·3 | 3·0 | 1·7 | 0·5 | 1·6 | 3·0 | 2·4 |
| Brawdy (Pembroke) | 4·2 | 3·3 | 2·0 | 0·6 | 0·0 | 0·2 | 3·1 | 1·9 |
| Cilfyndd (Merthyr Tydfll) | 3·4 | 2·2 | 2·4 | 1·8 | -1·1 | -0·7 | 0·5 | 1·2 |
| Mumbles (Swansea) | 4·4 | 4·2 | 3·8 | 2·5 | 0·9 | 1·9 | 3·2 | 3·0 |
| Rhoose (Cardiff) | 3·3 | 3·0 | 2·4 | 0·6 | -0·9 | -1·3 | 0·7 | 1·1 |
| Trawsfyndd (Dolgellau) | 3·9 | 1·8 | 1·5 | 0·9 | -0·5 | 1·3 | 0·3 | 1·3 |
| Valley (Caernarfon) | 6·1 | 4·1 | 2·7 | 1·8 | 0·9 | 0·2 | 1·8 | 2·5 |
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many applications in (a) Scotland and (b) Britain for severe weather payment have come from persons not on supplementary benefit; and what proportion of these are now being processed with a view to checking entitlement to supplementary benefit.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how much was spent by his Department on advertising the availability of exceptionally severe weather payments (a) in 1986 and (b) so far in the current year in: (i) Scotland, (ii) Strathclyde and (iii) Greenock and Port Glasgow.
I shall let the hon. Members have a reply as soon as possible.