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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to replace miles with kilometres on traffic signs used to indicate speed limits and distances.

Asked by
Parmjit Dhanda (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Transport
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
11 July 2002
Reference
388 c1116W; 69926
House
House of Commons

Why, in Parts II, III and IV of the Schedule to the M4 Motorway (Hillingdon and Hounslow) (Speed Limits) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/1651), distances are expressed in metres and kilometres instead of yards and miles; and whether this is lawful. [HL 5042].

Asked by
Lord Stoddart of Swindon (Independent Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 July 2002
Reference
HL 5042; 637 c76WA
House
House of Lords

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what his policy is on the use of kilometres on road distance indicator signs in the UK.

Asked by
Lord Grayling (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
7 May 2002
Reference
53510; 385 c28W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the cost was of the recent prosecution of vendors using the imperial standard of measurement; and if she will make a statement on the public interest involved in the prosecution. - (Holding answer 14 March 2002).

Asked by
Elfyn Llwyd (Plaid Cymru)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
19 March 2002
Reference
40756; 382 c247W;382 c245W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the implications of the decision in Dove v. Cornwall County Council.

Asked by
Nigel Waterson (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 March 2002
Reference
40360; 381 c593W
House
House of Commons

Whether Ordnance Survey maps will be published in future with contour lines marked in metre numbers; and, if so, whether all the contour lines will have to be redrawn. [HL 2009].

Asked by
Lord Rotherwick (Conservative)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
18 December 2001
Reference
HL 2009; 630 c36-7WA
House
House of Lords