§ 74. Mrs. Mannasked the Minister of Labour the extra amount per annum paid to employees whose wages and emoluments are raised automatically with the increase in the index figure of the cost of living for years 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, and to date.
§ Mr. Iain MacleodThe estimated weekly amount of increase, under automatic sliding scales based on the Index of Retail Prices, in rates of wages of manual workers at the end of each of the years mentioned, compared with the wage rate at the end of the previous year was[...]
and was £265,700 at the end of the period January to April, 1956.
£ 1952 649,000 1953 466,200 1954 291,100 1955 300,100