The number of mortgage repossessions rose nearly eightfold over the same period and more than half of unemployed families with children are in debt.
Heat and power surveys have increased eightfold during the year.
Asylum staff have increased eightfold since 1988 from 100 to 800.
Since the war, the open trading system has led to an eightfold growth in trade.
This is an eightfold increase over 1984–85, from £14 million to £102 million.
If it grows at 3 per cent, a year, in the same period it will increase eightfold.
That represents an eightfold increase, and there has been a threefold increase in the number of season tickets issued.
We are investing £37 million over three years in more caseworkers and adjudicators, and asylum staff are up eightfold since 1988.
