§ 67. Mr. Ernest Daviesasked the Minister of Labour the percentage rise in retail prices compared with the immediate pre-war period.
§ Mr. Iain MacleodUp to June, 1947, the only official index of retail prices was the earlier Cost of Living Index based on a 1914 standard of consumption. Any attempt to link these early figures with the Interim Index figures compiled after June, 1947, would not provide a reliable measure, on a comparable basis, of the average rise in retail prices since the immediate pre-war period.