27. Miss Leeasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what were the percentage increases of wages and salaries from 1938 until 1955, and from 1945 until 1955.
§ Mr. H. MacmillanBetween 1938 and 1955 the total of wages and salaries rose by 255 per cent.; figures on a comparable basis with those now published are not available for 1945, but between 1946 and 1955 the total of wages and salaries rose by 105 per cent.