§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the towns in which food prices are checked for information to compile the national price index.
§ Sir John CopePrices for the retail prices index are collected from the areas around the local employment service offices given below:
§ Sir John CopeHow building societies choose to communicate with their members is a matter for them. A number of societies routinely transfer customers from obsolete accounts to the nearest equivalent active one. Sections 6.1 to 6.3 of the revised voluntary code of banking 91W practice, published in March, set out standard practice for informing customers of the rates of interest paid on accounts. A copy of the code is in the Library.