asked the Secretary of State for Air, whether he will now introduce 30-day weather forecasts.

Yes.Forecasts of weather for more than a few days ahead cannot yet compare in precision and accuracy with short-period forecasts and much fundamental research on long-range forecasts remains to be done. The Meteorological Office has been making monthly forecasts since 1955. These have been experimental and not available to the general public. They have been based largely on analogy with previous years which presented similarities to the current year in the distribution of temperature and pressure and in the weather sequence over and around Great Britain.In recent years the success of these experimental forecasts, taken as a whole, has been significantly better than chance. It is difficult to devise a completely satisfactorily method of assessment, but a careful analysis of the last five years' experience indicates that, while on less than 10 per cent, of occasions the predictions were so wide of the mark as to be completely misleading and on between one fourth and one fifth showed little agreement with actual conditions, on two-thirds of the occasions they were judged to be in close or moderate conformity with the actual weather experienced.On the advice of the Meteorological Committee I have now decided that monthly forecasts prepared by the Meteorological Office should be made available to the public. Starting in December, a publication entitled

asked the Minister of Public Building and Works what progress he has made with his plans for the accommodation of the Foreign Office.

In my reply on 18th December, 1962, to the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond), I outlined a scheme to repair and modernise the building occupied by the Foreign Office, the Commonwealth Relations Office and the Home Office.It has become apparent, after further study, that any attempt to retain the present building even with such modernisation as would be possible structurally, would be uneconomic and would fail to provide accommodation suitable for present-day conditions, let alone for future requirements.I have therefore decided to demolish the existing building in due course and to construct on the same site an entirely new building. The intention is that it should house the whole of the staffs of the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth RelationsOffice, who are at present scattered through many separate buildings. The Home Office, including staff not now in buildings in Whitehall, will move into other new accommodation in the Whitehall area.

asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will make a statement about the Order of Questions during the period until the Christmas Adjournment.

Yes.In view of the anxiety expressed by the Leader of the Opposition about the risk of undue delay in right hon. and hon. Members being able to put Oral Questions to some Ministers, a roster has been agreed which, although only a period of five weeks is involved, will ensure that most Ministers will be reached at least once during the period concerned, and some major Departments more than once. This has been done by limiting each Department to only one place in the schedule a week.

asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will arrange for Departments to make written Answers to Questions generally available to Members on the day of answer.

Yes. From the beginning of this Session Departments will make copies of written Answers to Questions available in the Library on the day of answer. In this way an Answer should be generally available to Members immediately after it has been received by the Member who asked the Question.

asked the Minister of Transport when the Report by Professor Buchanan on the long-term problem of traffic in towns will be published.

It is expected that copies of the Report will be issued on the afternoon of 27th November and on sale to the general public the following morning.

asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations what help was offered by Her Majesty's Government to Trinidad and Tobago after Hurricane Flora had struck Tobago.

The British Government were grieved to learn of the loss of life, injury and severe damage caused by the hurricane which hit Tobago on 30th September. I am sure that the House will wish to join with me in expressing our sincere sympathy to the people of Trinidad and Tobago.Prompt help was provided through the services of H.M.S. "Tartar" which proceeded at once to Tobago, the supply of tents from British Army stocks in British Guiana and the provision of anti-typhoid vaccine through the British Red Cross Society. As a further contribution to the immediate relief of distress, Her Majesty's Government made a gift of 100,000 West Indian dollars to the Relief Fund opened by the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.Parliament will be asked, in due course, to approve a Supplementary Estimate of about £21,000 to meet this expenditure. In the meanwhile an advance has been made from the Civil Contingencies Fund.

asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, what further help was given by Great Britain to the Government of Pakistan for the relief of distress caused by the cyclone in East Pakistan.

As I told the House on 27th June, Her Majesty's Government offered aid in kind to the value of £50,000 following first reports on the destruction caused by the cyclone, in which 12,000 people lost their lives. Subsequent reports showed that the surviving coastal communities had lost nearly all their fishing gear and so their means of livelihood. A further gift of £15,000 has therefore been made for the purchase of twine for fishing nets.Parliament will be asked, in due course, to approve a Supplementary Estimate.