§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Minister for the Civil Service whether he will give the actual or estimated savings per annum if all indexing of public services pensions were to cease and such pensions paid upon the same basis as that which operated prior to indexation.
§ Mr Charles R. MorrisEven before the Pensions Increase Act 1971, it was the practice to increase pensions from time to time in the light of changes in the cost of living. The 1971 Act made these arrangements more systematic. It is, therefore, not possible to say what saving would result from reversion to the earlier arrangements, since this would depend on the number of pensioners in any particular year, on their average salary and reckonable service on retirement, and on the rate of inflation and the extent to
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