INCOME AND EXPENDITURE

THE average wage now is £530 and the average weekly household spending was £529.

We now spend more than £45 a week on eating out and staying away and £72 went on transport. Almost £70 was spent on recreation and £12 on booze and ciggies.

The average price of a pint in the UK’s most expensive place to drink, London, is now well over £4 and a pack of 20 cigarettes now is up to £10.