§ Mr. Lewisasked the Minister of Labour if he will publish in HANSARD a table showing the wage rates and cost-ofliving indices for each year from 1938 to 1947, taking June, 1938, as 100.
§ Mr. WatkinsonThe table below gives the information required.
— Index of Weekly Wage-Rates, June 1938=100 Pre-war Cost of Living Index, June 1938=100 1938 … 100 101 1939 … 101 102 1940 … 112 119 1941 … 122 129 1942 … 131 129 1943 … 136–137 129 1944 … 143–144 130 1945 … 150–151 131 1946 … 162–163 132 1947 … 169 131 (Jan.-June) The figures given are the averages of monthly figures. The pre-war Cost-ofLiving Index was terminated in June, 1947, and its place taken by the present Interim Index of Retail Prices based on June, 1947=100.
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§ Mr. Lewisasked the Minister of Labour if he will publish in HANSARD a table showing the wage rates and costof-living indices for each year from 1947 to 1952, taking June, 1947, as 100.
§ Mr. WatkinsonThe following table gives the information required:
— Index of Weekly Wage-Rates, 30th June, 1947=100 Interim Index of Retail Prices, 17th June, 1947=100 1948 … 106 108 1949 … 109 111 1950 … 111 114 1951 … 120 125 1952 … 130 136 The figures given are the averages of monthly figures for each year. The index of actual average earnings in April. 1952, the latest available, was 142 compared with 129 for rates of wages in those industries covered by the earnings inquiries (and 128 in all the principal industries and services).