Submitted on Wednesday 25th April 2018
Rejected on Tuesday 1st May 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
This government should enforce the Weights & Measures Act to stop short measures
The alcoholics drinks market routinely breaks the Weights and Measures act, no other retail market would be allowed to sell such short measures to its consumers on a regular basis.
A pint of drink should be a full pint, not a short measure.
If we consider a firkin of beer is sold as containing 72 pints, then due to losses a typical barrel can supply 69 - 70 "Full" pints. If that firkin of beer is sold with a short measure of 5% on each pint then the firkin could provide approximately 74 saleable “pints” to the retailing establishment. Given that most brewers will have declared and paid duty on 69 - 70 pints that means the Government is also losing out on duty on these 4 "extra" pints sold, as well as the customer being undersold
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Enforcing the Weights and Measures Act is the responsibility of Local Weights and Measures Authorities (LWMAs), not the UK Government or Parliament.
You can find out more about this here:
www.gov.uk/guidance/national-regulation-weights-and-measures#enforcement-of-the-weights-and-measures-act
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