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Mr. Baker
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish an index of real personal disposable income for each year from 1945 to 1977.
Mr. Denzil Davies
The information is given in the following table. Estimates for years before 1948 are not available.
| REAL PERSONAL DISPOSABLE INCOME | |
| (1970=100) | |
| 1948 | 54·0 |
| 1949 | 55·5 |
| 1950 | 57·3 |
| 1951 | 56·6 |
| 1952 | 57·4 |
| 1953 | 60·4 |
| 1954 | 62·2 |
| 1955 | 65·4 |
| 1956 | 67·1 |
| 1957 | 68·3 |
| 1958 | 69·5 |
| 1959 | 73·0 |
| 1960 | 77·8 |
| 1961 | 81·0 |
| 1962 | 81·6 |
| 1963 | 85·3 |
| 1964 | 88·4 |
| 1965 | 90·6 |
| 1966 | 92·6 |
| 1967 | 94·0 |
| 1968 | 95·7 |
| 1969 | 96·5 |
| 1970 | 100·0 |
| 1971 | 102·6 |
| 1972 | 110·7 |
| 1973 | 117·9 |
| 1974 | 119·7 |
| 1975 | 119·9 |
| 1976 | 119·6 |
| 1977 | 118·1 |