Mr. Tom Ellisasked the Secretary of State for Employment what were the average earnings of male manual workers and non-manual workers in Wales in 1973.
§ Mr. BoothOn the basis of the 1973 New Earnings Survey it is estimated that the average gross weekly earnings in April 1973 of full-time men, aged 21 or over, who were employed in Wales and whose pay for the survey reference period was not affected by absence, were:
Manual men … … £38.70 Non-Manual men … … £45.00 These estimates are subject to sampling errors and are given to the nearest l0p.