To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what percentage of the Meteorological Office’s revenues came from licensing products to (a) local and (b) central Government in the last year for which figures are available. (112774)

Met Office customers are charged a fee for the overall provision of products and services, not just a licensing charge. Of its total revenue in 2005-06 of £170 million, 1 per cent. was for the provision of products and services to local government and 35 per cent. for products and services to central Government.