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Written question asked by David TC Davies (Conservative) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 14 January 2010. It was answered by Joan Ruddock (Labour) on Wednesday, 20 January 2010 on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Temperature

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate his Department has made of the average temperature in the UK in each of the last 10 years.
Answer

The Department obtains estimates of the average temperature in the UK from the National Climate Information Centre based at the Met Office, which makes these data along with regional values for months, seasons and years freely available from its website at:"http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/datasets/index.html"The UK annual average temperatures in the last decade were:

°C
2000 9.09
2001 8.84
2002 9.47
2003 9.50
2004 9.47
2005 9.45
2006 9.73
2007 9.59
2008 9.05
2009 9.16

The 2009 value is provisional and will be finalised once all data have been received and quality-controlled. The six years 2002-07 are the warmest six years on record since records began for the UK as a whole in 1914.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
504 c401W; 311192
Session
2009-10
Subjects
Temperature
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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