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Mr. Ashton
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what information he has about the comparative cost of living in the capital cities of the EC member states.
Mr. Maples
Following are the comparative costs of living in the capital cities of EC member states as of October 1991 (London = 100).
| Comparative cost of living | |
| Copenhagen | 111·0 |
| Rome | 104·1 |
| Paris | 101·7 |
| Madrid | 101·1 |
| Brussels | 100·8 |
| London | 100·0 |
| Dublin | 96·8 |
| Bonn | 95·0 |
| Athens | 93·2 |
| Luxembourg | 89·3 |
| The Hague | 88·7 |
| Lisbon | 88·4 |
Source: P-E International of Egham, Surrey.