Catalogue description Ministry of Labour and National Service and successors: Cost of Living Advisory Committee and Retail Prices Index Advisory Committee: Minutes and Reports

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Reference: LAB 94
Title: Ministry of Labour and National Service and successors: Cost of Living Advisory Committee and Retail Prices Index Advisory Committee: Minutes and Reports
Description:

This series contains surviving minutes of meetings, committee papers and reports of the Cost of Living Advisory Committee and its successor the Retail Prices Index Advisory Committee, relating to their responsibilities for advising the government on the construction, coverage and presentation of the retail prices index.
Date: 1947-1986
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
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Department of Employment and Productivity, Retail Prices Index Advisory Committee, 1968-1970

Department of Employment, Retail Prices Index Advisory Committee, 1970-1986

Ministry of Labour and National Service, Cost of Living Advisory Committee, 1946-1959

Ministry of Labour, Cost of Living Advisory Committee, 1959-1968
Physical description: 10 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Accruals: Series is not accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Cost of Living Advisory Committee was appointed in August 1946 to advise the Minister of Labour and National Service on the basis of the official Cost Of Living index figure and matters connected therewith. It was recalled at intervals (1946-1947, 1951-1952, 1955-1956, 1961-1962, 1967-1968, 1970-1971, 1973-1976, 1977, and 1984-1986) to consider whether any revision of the basis of the figure was practical or desirable. The membership of the committee consisted of representatives from the Ministry of Labour and its successors, TUC, Co-operative movement, independent academics, nationalised industries, other government departments (Statistics Divisions), British Employers Confederation and the Retail Distributive Trades Conference. From 1968 it was renamed the Retail Prices Index Advisory Committee. The Retail Prices Index Advisory Committee last reported in 1986.

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