47738
2014-15
890
Measuring The Cost Of Living
Frank Doran
2015-03-18
That this House believes that the Retail Price Index (RPI) remains the most accurate measure of the rise in the cost of living faced by UK workers; notes that over many decades the majority of pay bargaining in the UK has traditionally taken the RPI as its main reference point but that the Johnson Review poses a major threat to the continued publication of the RPI; further believes that given the alternative Consumer Prices Index (CPI) and CPIH measures run around one per cent lower than the RPI, this would deal further blows to the pay packets of workers who have been experiencing years of deep declines in the value of their wages; further notes that a rigorous study of inflation by Dr Mark Courtney which sets out why the coverage of the RPI is most relevant to the costs faced by workers; and further believes that the importance of accurate measurement is central to recent proposals calling for the introduction of an independent Living Standards Index to measure the success of Government in dealing with the cost of living.
Economic situation
Statistics policy
Frank Doran
2015-03-18
Proposed
Aberdeen North
Labour
David Anderson
2015-03-18
Seconded
Blaydon
Labour
Ian Lavery
2015-03-18
Seconded
Wansbeck
Labour
Katy Clark
2015-03-18
Seconded
North Ayrshire and Arran
Labour
Jim Sheridan
2015-03-18
Seconded
Paisley and Renfrewshire North
Labour
Liz McInnes
2015-03-19
Seconded
Heywood and Middleton
Labour
Dai Havard
2015-03-19
Signed
Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
Labour
Mary Glindon
2015-03-19
Signed
North Tyneside
Labour
Dennis Skinner
2015-03-19
Signed
Bolsover
Labour
Kelvin Hopkins
2015-03-19
Signed
Luton North
Labour
Joan Ruddock
2015-03-20
Signed
Lewisham, Deptford
Labour
John McDonnell
2015-03-20
Signed
Hayes and Harlington
Labour
Jeremy Corbyn
2015-03-20
Signed
Islington North
Labour
Alan Meale
2015-03-20
Signed
Mansfield
Labour
Roger Godsiff
2015-03-23
Signed
Birmingham, Hall Green
Labour
Mark Durkan
2015-03-23
Signed
Foyle
Social Democratic and Labour Party
George Howarth
2015-03-23
Signed
Knowsley
Labour
Valerie Vaz
2015-03-23
Signed
Walsall South
Labour
Paul Flynn
2015-03-23
Signed
Newport West
Labour
Tony Cunningham
2015-03-23
Signed
Workington
Labour
Ian Mearns
2015-03-23
Signed
Gateshead
Labour
Mark Lazarowicz
2015-03-23
Signed
Edinburgh North and Leith
Labour
Grahame Morris
2015-03-23
Signed
Easington
Labour
Ian Davidson
2015-03-23
Signed
Glasgow South West
Labour
George Galloway
2015-03-24
Signed
Bradford West
Respect
David Wright
2015-03-24
Signed
Telford
Labour
Andrew Love
2015-03-24
Signed
Edmonton
Labour
David Crausby
2015-03-24
Signed
Bolton North East
Labour
Graham Stringer
2015-03-24
Signed
Blackley and Broughton
Labour
Graeme Morrice
2015-03-24
Signed
Livingston
Labour
Paul Murphy
2015-03-24
Signed
Torfaen
Labour
Paul Farrelly
2015-03-24
Signed
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Labour
Nick Harvey
2015-03-24
Signed
North Devon
Liberal Democrat
Yasmin Qureshi
2015-03-24
Signed
Bolton South East
Labour
Iain McKenzie
2015-03-24
Signed
Inverclyde
Labour
Jimmy Hood
2015-03-24
Signed
Lanark and Hamilton East
Labour
Mike Gapes
2015-03-24
Signed
Ilford South
Labour
Anne Begg
2015-03-24
Signed
Aberdeen South
Labour
Clive Betts
2015-03-24
Signed
Sheffield South East
Labour
Gordon Marsden
2015-03-24
Signed
Blackpool South
Labour
Martin Caton
2015-03-24
Signed
Gower
Labour
Bill Esterson
2015-03-24
Signed
Sefton Central
Labour
Barry Sheerman
2015-03-25
Signed
Huddersfield
Labour
Jim Cunningham
2015-03-25
Signed
Coventry South
Labour
Steve Rotheram
2015-03-25
Signed
Liverpool, Walton
Labour
Caroline Lucas
2015-03-25
Signed
Brighton, Pavilion
Green
Sandra Osborne
2015-03-25
Signed
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
Labour