HC Deb 15 March 1994 vol 239 cc574-5W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the President of the Board of Trade how many complaints he has received about short measures in the sale of beer for each year since 1979.

Mr. McLoughlin

[holding answer 8 March 1994]: The numbers of letters about short measure beer or about not receiving a full liquid pint of beer for each year from 1989 are as follows:

Year Number
1989 4
1990 11
1991 31
1992 13
1993 716
11994 20
1 1 January to 8 March.

These figures include letters from trading standards departments reporting surveys of pubs selling draught beer. They do not include replies to consultations. The figures for 1993 include 601 letters from people who had inserted their name and address in a preprinted form.

Information for the years 1979 to 1988 could be produced only at disproportionate cost.

Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will list the organisations that have complained to him about short measures in the sale of beer for each of the last five years.

Mr. McLoughlin

[holding answer 8 March 1994]: My Department has received letters from the following organisations about short measure beer or about less than a full liquid pint of beer being served.

1989

  • Barnsley metropolitan borough council

1990

  • Bedfordshire county council
  • Tayside regional council
  • LACOTS
  • South Tyneside metropolitan borough council
  • Walsall metropolitan borough council

1991

  • Surrey county council
  • Association of Greater Manchester Authorities
  • Tomporcon Ltd. (on behalf of the Allied Brewery Traders Association)
  • St. Helens metropolitan borough council
  • North Yorkshire county council

1992

  • London borough of Southwark
  • Strathclyde regional council

1993

  • Association of Greater Manchester Authorities
  • CAMRA (Portsmouth and South East Hampshire branch)
  • Tomporcon Ltd. (on behalf of the Allied Brewery Traders Association)
  • CAMRA
  • Consumers Association
  • Hereford and Worcester county council
  • John Glover (Wholesale) Ltd.
  • Birmingham city council
  • Cleveland county council
  • North Yorkshire county council
  • Shropshire county council
  • Leeds city council
  • Oldham metropolitan borough council
  • Durham county council
  • Barnsley metropolitan borough council
  • CAMRA (Grimsdyke branch)
  • CAMRA (West Middlesex branch)

1994 (1 January to 8 March)

  • Trafford metropolitan borough council
  • Birmingham city council
  • Consumers Association
  • CAMRA

In addition to the organisations listed above, a number of others have written to my Department in response to consultations.