asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what were the relative prices in table 1 of the Economic Progress Report for July 1977; and haw these compare with the latest figures.

The relative prices given were those of a broadly comparable "basket" of consumer goods and services in domestic currencies in each of the EEC capitals expressed as a percentage of the price—in foreign exchange—of an equivalent purchase in London. The estimates were based on a five-yearly survey of consumer prices, last carried out in 1975, by the Statistical Office o the European Communities.As the 1980 survey is not quite completed, later results are not yet available. However, the following table gives approximate up-dates for September 1980 derived by the Department of Employment by adjusting the 1975 data with reference to subsequent changes in respective consumer prices indices.