§ Mr. Penhaligonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report a table listing (a) the value of old-age pensions, (b) gross
PERCENTAGE INCREASES IN STANDARD RATE OF RETIREMENT PENSION FOR A SINGLE PERSON, GENERAL INDEX OF RETAIL PRICES* AND AVERAGE EARNINGS† BETWEEN UPRATING DATES FROM APRIL 1945 Date Rate of pension retirement £ Percentage increase since previous date General Index of retail prices April 1975=100 Percentage increase since previous date Average earnings £ Percentage increase since previous date 1st April 1945 0.50 — 100.0 — 60.1 — 1st October 1946 1.30 160.0 100.5 0.5 6.04 0.4 1st October 1951 1.50 15.4 129.4 28.8 8.30 37.5 1st October 1952 1.625 8.3 138.4 7.0 8.925 7.5 25th April 1955 2.00 23.1 149.8 8.2 10.87 21.8 27th January 1958 2.50 25.0 166.6 11.2 12.62 16.1 3rd April 1961 2.875 15.0 174.7 4.9 15.07 19.2 27th May 1963 3.375 17.4 188.2 7.7 16.53 9.7 29th March 1965 4.00 18.5 199.1 5.8 18.69 13.1 30th October 1967 4.50 12.5 216.8 8.9 21.375 14.3 3rd November 1969 5.00 11.1 241.8 11.5 25.00 16.9 20th September 1971 6.00 20.0 281.7 16.5 30.70 22.8 2nd October 1972 6.75 12.5 305.6 8.5 35.82 16.7 1st October 1973 7.75 14.8 335.8 9.9 40.92 14.2 22nd July 1974 10.00 29.0 381.1 13.5 46.25 13.0 7th April 1975 11.60 16.0 448.5 17.7 54.05 16.9 17th November 1975 13.30 14.7 501.0 11.7 60.58 12.1 * Based on the movement in the General Index of Retail Prices linked with the Cost of Living Index. † Estimates made by the Department of Health and Social Security based on the average gross weekly earnings of male adult, full-time manual workers as determined by the Department of Employment's inquiry into the earnings of manual workers employed in manufacturing and certain other industries and the monthly index of average earnings.