UK Weights And Measures

EDM number 627 in 1997-98, proposed by Gwyneth Dunwoody on 12/01/1998.

That this House welcomes and supports the use of customary United Kingdom measures; opposes the use of criminal penalties in enforcing metrication; is aware of the strength of opposition to compulsory metrication by business and the British public; believes that the use of United Kingdom measures is fully compatible with the European Union's stated principle of subsidiarity; and calls for compulsory metrication to be repealed.

This motion has been signed by a total of 88 MPs.