asked the Minister for the Civil Service, assuming an inflation rate of 15 per cent., what would be the index-linked pension on retirement of the lowest grade civil servant entering the service today.

Assuming that the civil servant serves for 40 years, and that the current superannuation arrangements remain unchanged, his pension would be half his pensionable pay in the best of his last three years of reckonable service. What his pension-

	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975
Average prison sentence pronounced for persons received in default of payment of a fine in days	29	29	30	32	35
Average period actually served in prison by persons sentenced in default of payment of a fine in days	13	10	10	11	14
Estimated average direct prison sentence for persons sentenced for breach of the peace (including petty assault) in days	47	48	49	50	52

The figure for breach of the peace excluding petty assaults is readily available only for 1975 when the average sentence was 41 days. All figures given include persons sentenced to young offenders' institutions.