§ Mr. Marlowasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will set out the comparable figures for the retail price index and the pensioners price index for each of the last 20 quarterly periods.
§ Mr. BrittanThe year-on-year increase in the retail prices index and in the indices for one and two-person pensioner households for each of the last 20 quarterly114W periods are as follows. In order to provide a valid comparison between the pensioner indices—which do not include housing costs-and the "all items" retail prices index, a separate index is compiled which excludes housing costs from the RPI. The corresponding figures for this index are also included in the following table.
Percentage Increase on the Previous Year Index for one-person pensioner households Index for two-person pensioner households RPI (excluding housing) RPI (all items) 1978 Q1 10.3 9.4 10.1 9.5 Q2 8.3 7.8 8.2 7.6 Q3 7.3 7.5 7.9 7.9 Q4 6.6 7.1 7.6 8.1 1979 Q1 8.8 9.0 8.6 9.6 Q2 8.9 9.2 9.2 10.6 Q3 13.1 14.5 15.2 16.0 Q4 15.8 15.8 16.8 17.3 1980 Q1 16.7 16.6 18.1 19.1 Q2 18.8 18.8 20.2 21.5 Q3 16.0 14.3 14.6 16.4 Q4 14.7 14.0 13.3 15.3 1981 Q1 13.0 12.6 11.9 12.7 Q2 11.4 11.4 10.8 11.7 Q3 10.5 11.0 10.4 11.2 Q4 10.7 11.5 10.6 11.9 1982 Q1 10.9 11.2 9.5 11.1 Q2 10.4 10.0 8.6 9.4 Q3 8.7 8.2 7.2 8.0 Q4 7.5 7.0 6.6 6.2 The actual index figures for the RPI, the RPI exclusive of housing costs, and the pensioner indices are published in tables 6.1 and 6.6 of the monthly Employment Gazette.