Road Safety Bill [HL]

I should like to intervene in a friendly manner on the amendment. I hope that the noble Lord, Lord Higgins, will accept this. I must complain about the drafting of the amendment. I am very sad that the noble Earl, Lord Attlee, is not in his place but then I suppose that Earls should stick together. I am happy about the use of metric measurements; this is not a metric versus imperial complaint. My complaint is about the use of centimetres—they are terrible. They are not used in either the building industry or in civil engineering. I plead with anybody drafting this type of amendment to use millimetres so that those doing the work will instinctively know what they need to do.