We have said that we support the shift from the retail prices index to the consumer prices index for the period of this Parliament to reduce the deficit, but we do not support a permanent shift from RPI to CPI that will continue long after the deficit has been eliminated. I will discuss shortly some evidence from the Pensions Policy Institute and the Royal Statistical Society on the appropriate measure of inflation for uprating pensions.
Public Service Pensions Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Rachel Reeves
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 29 October 2012.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Public Service Pensions Bill.
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