Engineering Standards And Standard Weights And Measures (Transfer)

Q11.

Mr. Patrick Jenkin
asked the Prime Minister why he has transferred from the Board of Trade to the Ministry of Technology responsibility for engineering standards and for determining standard weights and measures.

The Prime Minister
Engineering standards are of great importance to the mechanical and electrical engineering industries for which the Ministry of Technology now has responsibility. Moreover, work on standards and the determination of weights and measures increasingly employs advanced technologies.