BRITISH HERITAGE ENGINEERING AND IMPERIAL UNITS

Early day motion 1290, tabled 18 April 2007 by John Hemming (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 38 members.

That this House notes the concerns of model engineers and other heritage engineering workers that they may not be allowed to use imperial measurements subsequent to the EU Directive 80/181; recognises that this could do a considerable amount of damage to the maintenance of imperial heritage engineering and the model engineering sector; and calls for an urgent review by the Government of mechanisms to facilitate the continuation of this aspect of British heritage, which may include a permanent derogation from this aspect of the directive facilitating the reporting of measurements in both imperial and metric units.

Signatures by party: Conservative 13, Labour 12, Liberal Democrat 10, DUP 3.