Oral Answers to Questions — Cost of Living

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 April 1956.

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Mr. Lee:

Would the hon. Gentleman agree that people on small fixed incomes, such as old-age pensioners, spend a larger percentage of their income on food? Would the Government, therefore, watch the weighting of the food portion of the Index which presses more hardly on old-age pensioners?