HC Deb 18 December 1991 vol 201 cc173-4W
Mr. French

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will introduce new standards for the maintenance of air pressure gauges on garage forecourts.

Mr. Leigh

I have been asked to reply.

My Department has no plans to introduce requirements relating to the maintenance of air pressure gauges on

Full time employees on adult rates whose pay was unaffected by absence and whose gross weekly earnings (excluding overtime) were below the folowing specified amounts
April 1991
£130 £140 £180 £190
Numbers in sample Numbers in sample Numbers in sample Numbers in sample Total in sample
Greater Manchester
Manual men 153 230 600 716 1,741
Non manual men 73 103 280 325 1,916
All men 226 333 880 1,041 3,657
Manual women 163 211 318 332 386
Non-manual women 205 299 715 815 1,621
All women 368 510 1,033 1,147 1,007

garage forecourts. The testing of hot tyres can produce misleading or inaccurate readings however accurate the gauge might be. Tyres should always be tested cold.

Motorists should therefore use their own gauges to check their tyres when cold. This is why my Department has approved British standard 4613 on portable gauges for the purposes of the general safety requirement under section 10(3) of the Consumer Protection Act 1987.

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