Living Standards

HC Deb 19 December 1994 vol 251 cc942-3W

Mr. Austin Mitchell

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what measures he has used to define the standard of living.

Mr. Nelson

A wide range of statistics illustrating aspects of the standard of living are published in "Social Trends", including household disposable income, real take-home pay, GDP per head, housing standards and access to consumer durables.