§ Mr. David Priceasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report a table of figures showing the relationship between the buying power of the retirement pension and the retail price index on a monthly basis since March 1974 to the most recent convenient date.
§ Mr. OrmeThe information is as as follows:
Equivalents (1) in percentage terms, for each month to January 1977, of the purchasing power of the standard rate of retirement pension for a single person in March 1974: