§ 66. Mr. A. Lewisasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish in HANSARD a table of figures giving the percentage rise-or-fall, or an annual
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TABLE I — 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 Index of industrial production (1) 100 98 103 110 116 116 118 117 123 131 133* Coal production (deep-mined and opencast) 100 102 101 101 99 100 100 97 92 87 85 Total in civil employment (2) 100 99 100 102 103 104 105 104 104 106 108 Registered unemployed (3) 100 164 135 113 94 102 123 178 182 140 134 Wages 100 107 113 121 132 143 150 152 157 169 † Salaries 100 108 113 121 133 147 159 167 179 196 † Gross trading profits of companies (4) 100 88 93 103 114 115 120 117 130 138 † Gross ordinary dividends (4) 100 99 108 120 131 137 143 150 178 220 † Income from rent (5) 100 110 124 142 144 157 169 198 209 217 † Retail price index (1) 100 109 113 115 120 126 130 134 135 136 141 Purchasing power of £(6) 100 94 93 91 88 84 82 80 80 79 76‡ Expenditure on educational building 100 113 116 120 133 167 200 203 208 210 † Expenditure on local authority houses 100 123 140 127 108 103 99 84 83 85 † Value of exports and re-exports 100 101 99 102 112 121 126 122 128 136 142 Terms of trade (1) 100 94 88 88 89 88 85 80 80 79 76 * First eleven months. † Figures for 1961 not yet available. ‡ Provisional. (1) For each of these series it has been necessary to link series with different base dates and different weighting systems. The movements over the whole period shown are therefore only approximate. (2) Mid-year. (3) Monthly average. (4) All companies except those nationalised during some part of the period 1938 to 1960. (5) Rental incomes from all types of property, after deducting the cost of repairs and other expenses but before allowing for depreciation. The imputed income from owner-occupied property is included. (6) Based on the price index of all consumer goods and services ratio, of the following, namely: the cost of living, salaries, wages, dividends, profits, rents, terms of trade, industrial production, bank rate, interest rates of the Public Works Loan Board, school building, council house building, exports, coal production, prices, purchasing value of the £, employment and unemployment, since 1951.
§ Sir E. BoyleThe information is given in the following two tables. In Table I the figures for each item are shown in index form taking 1951 as equal to 100. Table II shows the actual figures for bank rate and for the interest rates charged by the Public Works Loan Board together with the dates from which they applied, since these figures are not suitable for presentation in index form.
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TABLE II Percentages Bank rate Interest rates charged by Public Works Loan Board Date of change New rate Date of change Loans due for repayment in Not more than 5 years More than 5 years but not more than 15 years More than 15 years but not more than 30 years More than 30 years 1951— 1951— 8th November 2½ 8th November 2 3 3¾ 1952— 1952— 12th March 4 8th February 2¾ 3¾ 4¼ 1953— 1953— 17th September 3½ 20th October 2⅝ 3½ 4 1954— 1954— 13th May 3 4th June 2¼ 3¼ 3¾ 1955— 1955— 27th January 3½ 1st March 3⅛ 3¾ 4 24th February 4½ 9th July 3¾ 4¼ 4¼ 13th August 4⅛ 4½ 4½ 7th September 4½ 5 5 1956— 1956— 16th February 5½ 14th January 5½ 5⅜ 5¼ 24th March 5⅝ 5½ 5½ 23rd June 5¼ 5½ 5½ 20th October 5¼ 5¾ 5¾ 1957— 1957— 7th February 5 16th February 5¼ 5½ 5½ 19th September 7 13th July 5¾ 6 5¾ 28th September 7¼ 6¾ 6¾ 1958— 1958— 20th March 6 25th February 6½ 6½ 6¼ 22nd May 5½ 12thJuly 5¾ 6¼ 6¼ 19th June 5 23rd August 5¾ 6 6 14th August 4½ 20th November 4 25th October 5½ 5¾ 5⅞ 5¾ 1959— 28th March 5 5¾ 5¾ 5¾ 1960— 1960— 21st January 5 30th January 5½ 6 6 5⅞ 23rd June 6 16th July 6¼ 6¼ 6⅛ 6 27th October 5½ 20th August 6¼ 6¼ 6¼ 6⅛ 8th December 5 1961— 1961— 26th July 7 3rd June 6⅜ 6⅜ 6½ 6¼ 5th October 6½ 5th August 7½ 7½ 7 7 2nd November 6 14th October 7¼ 7¼ 7 7 11th November 6⅞ 6⅞ 6¾ 6¾