Cost of Living Index

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 30 Hydref 1947.

Danfonwch hysbysiad imi am ddadleuon fel hyn

Photo of Mr Cyril Osborne Mr Cyril Osborne , Louth Borough 12:00, 30 Hydref 1947

Is it not a fact that all civil servants' salaries depend upon the fluctuation in the Cost-of-Living Index, and why has he omitted them? In view of the Chancellor's earlier promise that food subsidies would have to be revised, if not entirely eliminated, what progress is he making with the T.U.C. on this very thorny and important problem?