§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT details of the number of price increases sanctioned by his Department and the Price Commission for the longest stated period of time and the actual or percentage increases in each case.
§ Sir G. HoweThe approval of price increases by my Department was confined to phase 1 of the counter-inflationary measures which ran from 6th November 1972 to 28th April 1973. Details of price increases allowed were given in the OFFICIAL REPORT of 7th May, in reply to a question by the hon. Member for Swansea, West (Mr. Alan Williams)—[Vol. 856, c. 23–30.]
The Price Commission makes its own announcements of price increase approvals. It has recently issued statistics of approvals given so far.