§ Mr. Rookerasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Birmingham,
154WPerry Barr, Official Report, 9 February, c. 324–6, he will rework the figures in part (a) of his answer on the 155W assumption that the allowances had been raised for 1981–82 on the basis of the change in retail prices between December 1979 and December 1980.
Allowance levels if indexation had taken place in 1981–1982 based on change in the RPI between December 1979 and December 1980 Allowance levels in 1981–1982 if indexation based on change in the RPI between December 1980 and December 1981, were carried out on top of levels in column (1) Full year cost at 1981–1982 income levels of increasing allowances from level in column(1) to level in column (2) (1) £ (2) £ (3) £ million Single and wife's earned income allowance 1,585 1,785 750 Married Man's allowance 2,475 2,775 990 Additional personal allowance 890 990 10 Aged single allowance 2,100 2,360 80 Aged married allowance 3,335 3,745 90 Aged income limit 6,800 7,700 30 TOTAL COST 1,950