Sterling (Purchasing Power)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 28 Hydref 1947.

Danfonwch hysbysiad imi am ddadleuon fel hyn

Photo of Sir Waldron Smithers Sir Waldron Smithers , Orpington 12:00, 28 Hydref 1947

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state in tabular form the estimated purchasing power of the £ for the years 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, and at the latest available date, taking the purchasing power of the £ in 1900 as 100; also the figures calculated-over the whole field of personal expenditure and the same figures making allowance for the cost-of-living subsidies.