Metrication

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prices and Consumer Protection – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 April 1976.

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Mr. Alan Williams:

If there is any confusion, the convolutions of the Opposition have not exactly helped. The policy was to enable us to do what was necessary to fulfil their obligations in an orderly fashion. It seems to me—I make this point genuinely, whether the House wishes to believe it or not—that we should at least try, on what has been a consensus policy for the last 10 years, to explore how far consensus can be re-established. That means consensus with the consumer organisations, which have been overwhelmingly in support of changing Section 10(10) of the Weights and Measures Act 1963, and with the trade. I have had meetings and have invited the Opposition to meet me also.