Metrication

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 27 July 1983.

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Photo of Mr Eldon Griffiths Mr Eldon Griffiths , Bury St Edmunds 12:00, 27 July 1983

Is my hon. Friend aware that many of the companies that make the machines that measure petrol or other products feel that they are handicapped by the Department being too slow in its certification of new machines and too expensive in the fees that it charges? In view of the severe competition that the weighing and scale machine industry is facing, will he consider the possibility of self-certification and privatisation?