§ Mr. David Clarkasked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the mean and median wages of, respectively, males and females, in the Yorkshire and Humberside region.
§ Mr. Chichester-ClarkThe following estimates of average gross weekly earnings in the Yorkshire and Humberside region are taken from the New Earnings Survey and related to April 1972.
Mean Median £ £ Full-time manual men (aged 21 and over) 31.7 30.3 Full-time manual women (aged 18 and over) 16.2 15.6 (Employees whose pay in the survey pay-period was affected by absence were excluded from these estimates.)
§ Mr. David Clarkasked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the mean and median wages of, respectively, males and females, in the woollen textile industry at the latest convenient date.
§ Mr. Chichester-ClarkThe latest available estimates of mean weekly earnings in the woollen and worsted industry are provided by my Department's regular October inquiries. The figures for October 1972 are
Full-time manual men (aged 21 and over) £30.86 Full-time manual women (aged 18 and over) £16.52 This inquiry does not provide estimates of median earnings but, on the basis of results from the April 1972 New Earnings Survey, median earnings in this industry are about 2 per cent. below the mean for both men and women.
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§ Mr. David Clarkasked the Secretary of State for Employment what were the average weekly wages in England and Wales, Yorkshire and Humberside and the Huddersfield employment exchange area, respectively, at the latest convenient date.
§ Mr. Chichester-ClarkThe latest available estimates relate to October 1972 at which time average weekly earnings of full-time manual men in England and Wales were £35.94 and in the Yorkshire and Humberside region were £33.64.
I regret that no estimate is available for average earnings in the Huddersfield employment exchange area.