§ Mr. McNamaraasked the Minister of Labour if he will give the number of married women employed in Hull; what percentage this is of married women living in the area; what is their average wage; and what comparative percentage relationships this bears to the number of married women working throughout the country and the average wage in the country.
§ Mr. LoughlinI have been asked to reply.
Of the 75,342 married women enumerated in Hull at the 1961 Census of Population, approximately 20,400, or 27 per cent. in the week before the Census either had a job or were out of employment but intending to get work. For England and Wales, the figures were 3,625,050 or 31 per cent. of the 11,860,467 married women enumerated. Information about average earnings of married women in Hull or nationally in England and Wales is not available.