To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what is his estimate of the effect the implementation of section 43 of the Weights and Measures Act 1985 will have on the use of traditional hand pumps in dispensing draught beer.

No estimate is available.It will be possible to use hand-pumps. Whether or not to do so in any particular case will be a matter for the trade, as it is now.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what effect he estimates that the implementation of section 43 of the Weights and Measures Act 1985 will have on the price of a pint of beer.

The effect of implementing section 43 will be to increase the transparency of the price because it will then relate to a full pint of liquid, which it seldom does at present.