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54.
Mr. Dempsey
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what the amount of the death grant would have to be to restore its purchasing power to the £30 level to which it was last increased in 1967.
Mr. O'Malley
£71, on the basis of the movement of the retail price index between October 1967 and January of this year.