Worth mentioning that the above applies in the UK, not necessarily anywhere else, but for the good reason specified above.
It begs the question, why has the UK now adopted the ICAO procedure of pronouncing pressure information as separate digits, including the value of 1000 hpa/mb?
If anything is likely to be confused, it is 1010 and 1-0-0-0. I always thought that the UK method of using "one thousand" was a step in the right direction. Why has SRG seen fit to change it, surely this is a retrograde step?