§ Mr. CARTLANDasked the Minister of Labour, whether he will give figures of the cost-of-living and the average wage rates, according to the Ministry of Labour index, for the years 1934, 1935, and the first six months of 1936, with the percentage rate of increase of the 1936 figures over 1934?
§ Mr. E. BROWNIndex numbers showing the percentage changes in the average levels of working-class cost-of-living and in weekly rates of wages are published regularly in the quarterly supplements to the "Ministry of Labour Gazette". I am sending my hon. Friend a copy of the August issue, in which he will find the figures for each quarter for a series of years. Figures relating to the third quarter of 1936 will appear in the November issue.