Treasury written question – answered at on 8 November 2010.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has received legal advice on the use of the consumer prices index for measuring movements in the general level of prices for the purposes of (a) section 59 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 and (b) section 151 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992.
I have been asked to reply.
Advice was taken on the legality of the use of the consumer prices index as the measure of the general level of prices in the context of the Secretary of State's statutory duty under section 150 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992. Neither section 151 of that Act nor section 59 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 require the Secretary of State to measure movements in the general level of prices.
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