§ 83. Sir I. Fraserasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will give a list of the current retail prices of the principal commodities for which his Department is responsible, together with the prices prevailing in 1945.
Mr. H. WilsonFor the principal commodities for which my Department is responsible it is not practicable to compile a detailed list showing current prices and prices of comparable items in 1945. For the types of goods, however, which are represented in the Interim Index of Retail Prices, clothing prices rose by 21 per cent. and prices of household durable goods by 13 per cent. between the middle of June, 1947, and the middle of September this year. The limited information available suggests that the increase for these groups between 1945 and 1947 was probably about 3 per cent.