Business of the House - 7th January 2010

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Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield) (Con)

It would be particularly appropriate at this time to have a topical debate on the Met Office, which costs taxpayers about £200 million a year. Surely it is time to stop treating the serial inaccuracy of the Met Office’s forecasts as just a joke. It has become a scandal; it looks as if it has been hijacked by the climate change lobby. May we have a topical debate very soon on the subject?

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Ms Harman

The problem is not the Met Office but the challenge of climate change. There is a micro-climatic problem on the Tory Back Benches, which perhaps I could refer to the Tory Front Benchers.

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Ms Harman

We are able to play our part in the global effort to focus on climate change—obviously it has to be tackled nationally as well as globally—only because the Prime Minister and the Government are absolutely clear that climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing the planet, that we understand the science that lies underneath it, and that we are determined to take action to tackle it. I strongly agree with my hon. Friend.

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