HC Deb 02 February 1931 vol 247 c1441
81. Mr. ANNESLEY SOMERVILLE

asked the Minister of Labour whether she will now issue an explanation giving details of all the factors and prices upon which the Ministry of Labour bases its cost-of-living index figure, so that suggestions for a more appropriate basis and method of calculation, which she invited, may be lodged with the Ministry for the purpose of bringing the cost-of-living index figure into closer harmony with realities?

Mr. LAWSON

The scope and method of compilation of the index figures were fully explained in articles published in the "Ministry of Labour Gazette" for February, 1921, and July, 1923, and I am arranging to have these articles brought up to date and issued as a Stationery Office publication.