§ Mr. Marlowasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will take measures to permit those who wish to use traditional British measurements on passport application forms to do so in future.
§ Mr. RifkindNo. I refer my hon. Friend to the reply given to my hon. Friend the Member for Bury St. Edmunds on 25 February. Passport applicants have been asked to state their height in metres since the decision taken in 1975 to switch to the use of metric units in passports. There are no plans to drop the conversion tables which have been included in passport application forms since the change was made.