tp555
that may be due to a) habit, the delivery controller is reading the same standard sentence many times per hour and even if he's heard the pilot report the current ATIS, he just can't help it slipping out again!
or b) he's confirming that the information IS Alpha and the QNH IS indeed 1007.
A question of emphasis, maybe; but when a pilot reports that they've got the current ATIS, I always confirm that it is indeed still current. The damn things change so often!
No need to mention the QNH if the pilot's read it out correctly once, although I am also guilty of blurting it out again inadvertantly!