§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment if his Department keeps a price index related specially to the needs of retirement pensioners; and if he will publish the index for each month since January of this year.
§ Mr. BryanMy Department publishes regularly in its Gazette quarterly indices for one-person and two-person pensioner households mainly dependent on national insurance retirement or similar pensions and/or supplementary pensions or allowances paid in supplementation or instead of such pensions. The indices exclude housing costs.
The indices for the first three quarters of 1970 are:
16th January, 1962=100 One-person households Two-person households 1st Quarter … 136.9 137.0 2nd Quarter … 139.3 139.4 3rd Quarter … 140.3 140.6