§ Mr. Beaneyasked the Minister of Labour why the item, Transport and Vehicles, in the Retail Price Index showed a fall from 104.1 in December, 1964, to 103.9 in January, 1965, in view of the fact that its component parts, motoring and cycling, and fares and other transport, remained stationary at 98 and 116, respectively.
§ Mr. ThorntonA fall in the average level of prices of second-hand cars was sufficient to change the index for the Transport and Vehicles group as a whole expressed to one place of decimals. It was insufficient, however, to change the index for the sub-group Motoring and Cycling which is expressed to the nearest whole number.