§ Mr. Litterickasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will publish in the Official Report an index of the current real value of short-term supplementary benefit in relation to its value at February 1974;
(2) if he will publish in the Official Report an index of the current real value of long-term supplementary benefit relative to the benefit being paid in February 1974.
§ Mr. DeakinsThe information is given in the table below, calculated on the basis of the Retail Price Index excluding housing costs, which are dealt with separately in the assessment of supplementary benefit:
RELATIONSHIP OF JUNE 1976* RATES TO FEBRUARY 1974 RATES (= 100) Married Couple Single Householder Ordinary scale rates 98.3 98.3 Long-term scale rates 108.2 108.5 * The latest date for which figures are available