§ Mr. Pattieasked the Prime Minister if he will give the statistical evidence for his statement in the House on 7th March 1978, in reply to a question from the right hon. Lady the Leader of the Opposition, that inflation in February 1974 was 15 per cent.; and in how many months since February 1974 the rate of inflation has been lower than the level which then obtained.
§ The Prime MinisterMy reference was to the annual rate of inflation to April 1974, not to February.