§ Baroness Jegerasked Her Majesty's Government:
What is the present rate of rise in the official pensioners' price index compared with the general retail price index.
§ Lord CockfieldThe information requested is as follows:—
Percentage increase in 1982 (2nd Quarter) on year earlier Index for one person pensioner household (excluding housing) .. 10.4 Index for two-person pensioner household (excluding housing) .. 10.0 General Index of Retail Prices (excluding housing) .. 8.6 (7.2–1982 3rd Quarter) Comparative figures for the third quarter of 1982 will be published shortly in the October issue of the Department of Employment Gazette.
End of the Third Session of the Forty-Eighth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the thirty-first year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.