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Weights and measures - find out the law on trading standards for packaging and selling products

• Units of measurement

  You must use metric measurements (grams, kilograms, millilitres or litres)…

• Specified quantities

  Some goods must be sold in fixed sizes known as ‘specified quantities’.…

• Packaged goods

  Packaged goods are products that are all of these: sold sealed between 5g…

• Equipment and records

  Equipment for packaged goods The equipment you use to weigh or measure…

• Labelling packaged goods

  You must put the weight or volume of your packaged goods on the label. The…

This note sets out how the government will measure and monitor outcomes for integrated communities across England.

• Updated: 23 July 2019

How to use performance data to improve your service: getting started, what to measure, using data.

• Updated: 6 April 2022

• Updated: 24 March 2025

How to measure the value of your work and demonstrate it to stakeholders.

• Updated: 20 June 2018

This resource deals with how to measure resilience, presenting bite-size chunks of information and signposts to other material

• Updated: 1 January 2016

Report reviewing the evidence base on UK cross-border digital trade and identifying potential improvements to data sources.

• Updated: 14 May 2020

Article summarising existing concepts and definitions for international migration, the data sources currently used to measure these and introducing exploratory research into supplementary definitions as part of the migration statistics transformation programme.

• Updated: 14 February 2020

• Updated: 21 January 2026

Estimates of the economic return from further education qualifications started in academic year 2018 to 2019.

• Updated: 17 May 2021