On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 09:31:40 +0100
Hils wrote:

And are they a public sector organisation, or private? They seem to
have become like TOCs and the NHS, charging for services and taking
money from advertisers while also taking large subsidies from
taxpayers. They are certainly not the organisation they were.

The Met Office have always charged commercial companies for services. I
was billing people for my services well over forty years ago. If anyone
wanted a personal consultation with me about sea-ice conditions back
around 1970 it would cost them £40 per hour; an enquiry that only
needed a written response would probably have been charged at about £3
per hour for the work entailed. Any charge that came below £5 would be
provided free of charge as it then cost £5 to raise a bill.

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