§ Sir Ian GilmourTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will publish figures showing the April 1991 value of the category A national insurance pension, at uprating dates each year since 1978, using the general index of retail prices, including housing costs.
§ Miss WiddecombeInformation on the real value of the state retirement pension in previous years at April 1991 prices will not be available until the RPI figure for that month is known. Figures on the value of the state retirement pension at April 1990 prices are set out in table 5 1(a) of the October 1990 edition of the DSS "Abstract of Statistics", a copy of which is available in the Library.