Retail Price Index

HC Deb 05 July 1976 vol 914 c377W

29. Mr. Dykes

asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection if she will list the percentage increases in the Retail Price Index in the five-months period January to May inclusive in each of the calendar years 1970 to 1976.

Mr. Maclennan

In the five-month periods mid-December to mid-May the percentage increases in the Retail Price Index were 3.8; 5.7; 2.8; 4.6; 9.7; 15.1 and in lastest period 6.3.

30. Mr. Neubert

asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection what the effect on the Retail Price Index will be of the changes she proposes in the Price Code.

Mrs. Shirley Williams

Our estimate, which cannot be absolutely precise, is about 1 per cent.