Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to make changes to the permitted size of a serving of beer or cider.

This Government has no plans to change the permitted size of a serving of beer of cider.

Draught beer or cider can be served in a 1/3 pint, 1/2 pint, full pint, or multiples of those sizes as defined in the specified quantities set out in the Weights and Measurers legislation.

We have stated our commitment to preserving the pint, and the amendment to the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill put forward by Lord Fox, and supported by the Government, ensures any future government could not use the powers in the Bill to change the uses or size of the pint.