§ Mr. Leslie Huckfieldasked the President of the Board of Trade what further study his; Department has made of the problems of the introduction of metric quantities to coincide with the decimalisation of the £ sterling; and whether he will make a statement.
§ Mr. DellMany sectors of the economy would find it impracticable to time the introduction of metric quantities to coincide with decimalisation of the £ sterling. In any case I am very doubtful whether traders and the public could reasonably be expected to cope with both changes at the same time.