§ Q16. Mr. Michael Footasked the Prime Minister what steps he has taken to improve co-ordination between those Government Departments concerned with price increases in the public sector and the private sector; and in which sector his policy is succeeding the more quickly.
§ The Prime MinisterThere is close co-ordination, strengthened by the recent re-organisation. Price increases of the sort we have seen have been inevitable given the rising wage inflation which this Government inherited from their predecessors.