Clause 9 - Enforcement
Homes Bill
5:45 pm
Mr Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham, Conservative)
The point is not as distant as you might have been led to believe, Mr. Gale. It is essential to the clause that the enforcement procedure is carried out by weights and measures staff. Those same staff are, as we speak, having their resources pressed to the limit by the pursuit of wrongdoers in the shape of purveyors of bananas and assorted loose fruit in imperial, rather than metric, measurements.