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Mr. Riddick
To ask the President of the Board of Trade what proposals his Department has to require all retail products (a) to be labelled in metric units and (b) to be labelled with their price per metric unit of weight.
Mr. McLoughlin
All existing requirements for retail products to be marked with their weight or volume and for unit prices to be displayed are to be amended in accordance with the Units of Measurement Directive 1989.