HC Deb 14 February 1989 vol 147 cc149-50W
44. Mr. Cousins

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment which of the recommendations of the 1986 retail price index advisory committee he has currently under review.

Mr. Lee

As the hon. Member was told in a written answer on 17 January, the advisory committee is shortly to review progress on implementing the longer-term recommendations made in its 1986 report. The recommendations in question concern the treatment of holiday expenditure, charges for financial services, new car prices and quality changes, improvements to price collection procedures and the family expenditure survey, and the release of a technical manual on the index methodology. The Government will be ready to consider the committee's recommendations on these points in due course.