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date	15/07/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Weather
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information his Department holds on (a) the number of monitoring stations which recorded the reported temperature of 36.7 degrees Celsius on 1 July 2015 and (b) for how long each such monitoring station recorded that temperature that day.
tabling member constituency	East Antrim
tabling member printed	Sammy Wilson
uin	7239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2015 answer text <p>The maximum temperature reported by the Met Office’s network of UK weather stations on 1 July 2015 was 36.7 degrees Celsius, which was recorded at Heathrow airport. The maximum temperature was recorded at 1413 GMT, with lower temperatures recorded at minute intervals either side of that time. This pattern is in line with the natural fluctuation of temperature and consistent with maximum temperature readings recorded by the Met Office in general.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 23/07/2015 10:50:14 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1593 label Biography information for Sammy Wilson

390173

registered interest
date	15/07/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Weather
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information his Department holds on the number of sources from which data was gathered by the Meteorological Office to demonstrate that 1 July 2015 was the hottest July day recorded in the UK.
tabling member constituency	East Antrim
tabling member printed	Sammy Wilson
uin	7238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2015 answer text <p>The Met Office used temperature data from its network of UK weather stations, together with historical temperature records it holds dating back to 1853, to demonstrate that 1 July 2015 was the hottest July day recorded in the UK.</p><p>These sources show that temperatures in excess of 35 °C were recorded at a handful of weather stations in London and the south east on 1 July 2015, including 36.7 °C at Heathrow airport, the highest temperature recorded by the Met Office on a July day. Temperatures also exceeded 30 °C across the Midlands, East Anglia and parts of north-west and north-east England. In these areas July temperature records were also broken at a number of weather stations with long running records.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 23/07/2015 10:51:11 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1593 label Biography information for Sammy Wilson