§ Miss Quennellasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a table, from information available to him from international sources, showing the estimated rate of inflation per cent. in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries over the past four years, and estimated escalation in wage rate, over the same period, for the same countries.
§ Mr. NottThe available information is given in the following table. The change in consumer prices is the criterion customarily used by OECD in studies of inflation.
§ Mr. HigginsI have nothing to add to the answer which my hon. Friend the Chief Secretary gave to my hon. Friend on 27th June.—[Vol. 839, c. 281–2.]