Asked by: Lord Tanlaw (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to identify accurately the GPS Prime Meridian with a corresponding marker at the correct location in Greenwich Park.
Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Shadow Minister (Cabinet Office)
As the reference frame for the Global Positioning System (GPS) is established through a mathematical interpretation of satellite radio signals, rather than a physical meridian, it is not conceptually appropriate to represent it in the same way as other meridians have historically been marked at Greenwich.
Asked by: Lord Tanlaw (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to change the meaning of the acronym GMT from Greenwich Mean Time to Greenwich Meridian Time.
Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Shadow Minister (Cabinet Office)
We consider that any attempt to change the meaning of the acronym GMT is likely to result in confusion.
Asked by: Lord Tanlaw (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to review the use of British Summer Time, and what assessment they have made of the possible impact of maintaining BST throughout the year.
Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Shadow Minister (Cabinet Office)
The Government has no plans to review the use of British Summer Time.
In 2012, the Government published a review of the available evidence concerning the likely effects of moving to Central European Time (also known as Daylight Saving time) in the UK. This is attached, but is also available on the Government website at the following link.