§ Mr. Adleyasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will tabulate, for the nine other European Economic Community countries, plus the United States of America, Canada and Japan, the movement in inflation in the last two months.
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§ Mr. Bruce-GardyneThe table below shows the two latest available monthly movements in the annual rate of inflation for the USA, Canada, Japan and nine EEC countries.
Annual Rate of Inflation* August September October USA — 11.0 10.2 Canada — 12.5 12.7 Japan — 3.9 4.1 West Germany — 6.5 6.7 France — 13.9 14.1 Italy — 18.7 18.6 Netherlands — 6.8 7.1 Belgium — 8.4 7.8 Denmark — 12.0 11.8 Luxembourg 8.5 9.4 N/A Greece 23.7 23.7 N/A Ireland† 20.1 N/A N/A Source: OECD and National Sources.
* Year on year changes in consumer price indices.
† Figures available only at three month intervals. The annual rate of inflation over the year to May 1981 was 17.1 per cent.