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Mr. Bowden
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report, for each uprating since 1974, the value of the single and married retirement pension as a proportion of average male earnings.
Mr. Rossi
The available information is set out in the attached table. The November 1982 figure of average male earnings is not yet available.
| Retirement pension as percentage of average earnings of male manual workers | Retirement pension as percentage of average earnings of all males | |||
| Date of uprating | Man or woman on own insurance | Man plus wife on his insurance | Man or woman on own insurance | Man plus wife on his insurance |
| July 1974: | ||||
| under 80 | 21·6 | 34·6 | 19·8 | 31·6 |
| over 80 | 22·1 | 35·6 | 20·3 | 32·6 |
| April 1975: | ||||
| under 80 | 20·8 | 33·2 | 19·1 | 30·4 |
| over 80 | 21·3 | 34·1 | 19·5 | 31·3 |
| November 1975: | ||||
| under 80 | 21·5 | 34·3 | 19·6 | 31·3 |
| over 80 | 21·9 | 35·1 | 20·0 | 32·0 |
| November 1976: | ||||
| under 80 | 22·1 | 35·4 | 20·1 | 32·1 |
| over 80 | 22·4 | 36·1 | 20·4 | 32·8 |
| November 1977: | ||||
| under 80 | 23·1 | 37·0 | 21·0 | 33·6 |
| over 80 | 23·4 | 37·6 | 21·3 | 34·2 |
| November 1978: | ||||
| under 80 | 22·3 | 35·7 | 20·4 | 32·6 |
| over 80 | 22·6 | 36·3 | 20·6 | 33·1 |
| November 1979: | ||||
| under 80 | 22·5 | 36·0 | 20·4 | 32·7 |
| over 80 | 22·7 | 36·5 | 20·6 | 33·1 |
| November 1980: | ||||
| under 80 | 22·7 | 36·4 | 19·9 | 31·8 |
| over 80 | 22·9 | 36·8 | 20·1 | 32·2 |
| November 1981: | ||||
| under 80 | 22·5 | 36·0 | 19·6 | 31·4 |
| over 80 | 22·7 | 36·4 | 19·8 | 31·7 |