HC Deb 11 November 1975 vol 899 cc580-1W
Mr. Gwynfor Evans

asked the Minister for the Civil Service what was the cost in each of the years from 1964 to 1974 of the publications sold and distributed in the English and Welsh languages, respectively, by Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

Mr. Charles R. Morris

The cost of publishing HMSO sale publications, excluding Parliamentary Debates and theLondon Gazette, in the English and Welsh languages during the period 1964–65 to 1974–75 was as follows:

costs given in respect of index-linked pensions in the Civil Service.

Mr. Charles R. Morris

Such estimates are sensitive not, to the rate of inflation by itself, but to the difference between that rate and long-term interest rates. Current estimates assume that over the typical length of service and retirement of a man, some 40 years, the average rate of inflation will be some 3½ per cent. below long-term interest rates.