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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 March 1992.

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Photo of Mr John Major Mr John Major , Huntingdon 12:00, 12 March 1992

My hon. Friend is right about that. Once the increases announced by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor have been carried through, we shall be spending nearly £700 million a year more than in 1989, over and above inflation, on the less well-off pensioners. Pensioners, too, care about inflation. They know that we are in pursuit of stable prices; Labour would be in pursuit of higher inflation.