Sir Julian Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, when he plans to respond to the correspondence of 2 December 2024 from the Rt hon. Member for New Forest East on research into the accuracy of data produced by the Meteorological Office.  [56141]

[Due for Answer on 5 June]

ANSWER

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for AI and Digital Government (Feryal Clark): The Department attaches great importance to providing timely responses to Members’ correspondence. Regrettably a processing error has severely delayed our response in this instance, for which the Department sincerely apologises. We are taking steps to correct this system to prevent further errors of this nature. We will provide a full response urgently.