§ Mr. Lomasasked the Secretary of State for the Environment in view of the fact that the new ordnance maps have abandoned the mile-to-the-inch measurement, and replaced it by 2 centimetres to the kilometre, if his Department intends to operate the metric system generally before Parliament has reached a decision on it.
§ Mr. Peter WalkerNo. The decision to replace in the mid-1970s the present one inch to one mile series of ordnance maps by a new series to the slightly larger scale of 1 to 50,000 was made to produce maps of greater clarity. No decision has been made to metricate the units of measurement shown on the maps.