Firestorm
Terminal radar controllers who when you check in, and mention the ATIS that you have already recieved, but whislt you are still cleared to a flight level tell you what the QNH is: it is confusing. Am I now cleared to an altitude? No: it is not relevant at this point.
I am not at TC but at any airport I have worked at, we are obliged to give or confirm the current ATIS along with the type of App and the QNH, regardless of your cleared level. CAP 413 Ch 6 App Phraseology P1-6-3 refers. The example is for a/c joining CAS but the principle is the same. I sympathise and personally, I don't mention QNH until I want the a/c to set it but I am wrong for doing so.