HC Deb 22 July 1971 vol 821 cc327-8W
Mr. Spence

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many British nationals were working permanently or temporarily in each of the Common Market countries in each of the last five years.

Mr. Dudley Smith

We do not maintain statistics in respect of British nationals working abroad, and some European countries do not separately identify United Kingdom nationals in their statistics of foreign workers.

The following information in respect of United Kingdom workers, has been extracted from the national sources concerned :

of a wide variety of households, and it would be misleading to use this average index figure to estimate the increased earnings necessary to replace the loss of purchasing power at widely different income levels.

Following is the information :

Percentage change compared with the previous month of the General Index of Retail Prices
1970
February + 0.5
March + 0.6
April + 1.5
May + 0.3
June + 0.3
July + 0.7
August −0.1
September + 0.5
October + 1.1
November + 0.7
December + 0.7
1971
January + 1.4
February +0.5
March + 0.8
April + 2.1
May + 0.7
January, 1970 to May, 1971 +13.1