Mr. Alan Williamsasked the Minister of Labour how, after allowing for differences in the size of labour forces, the incidence of notifiable accidents in the coal industry in Wales compares with the incidence in the steel industry in Wales.
§ Mr. GunterI am afraid that this information asked for is not available from the statistics regularly collected.
Mr. Alan Williamsasked the Minister of Labour how the average weekly earnings of workers in the coal industry in Wales compares with those of workers in the steel industry in Wales.
§ Mr. GunterThe average weekly earnings, including the value of allowances in kind, of adult mineworkers in the South Wales Wages District in the week ended 17th October, 1964, were 376s. 10d. During the second pay-week in October, 1964, the average weekly earnings of adult male manual workers in "Iron and steel (general)" in Wales were 437s. 6d.