§ Mr. Hollandasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report details of sheltered employment facilities for disabled persons in Nottinghamshire including location of premises, numbers employed and numbers of existing vacancies at the latest possible date.
§ Mr. Harold WalkerFollowing is the information:
1974 are taken from my Department's regular annual inquiry into the earnings and hours of manual workers. They relate to full-time manual men aged 21 and over and women aged 18 and over in all the industries and services covered by the inquiry—manufacturing industries; mining and quarrying, except coal mining; construction; gas, electricity and water; transport and communication, 127W except railways and sea transport; certain miscellaneous services; and public administration. They include those whose pay was affected by absence or short-time working. Differences in average earnings between regions include the effects of different industrial and occupational structures; they do not therefore give a precise indication of differences in earnings for comparable work.
AVERAGE WEEKLY EARNINGS (£) Region Men Women South East 50.57 27.86 East Anglia 46.56 26.97 South West 45.98 26.19 West Midlands 49.40 27.36 East Midlands 46.44 26.07 Yorkshire and Humberside 46.69 25.84 North West 47.91 26.85 North 47.77 26.33 Wales 47.55 26.99 Scotland 48.37 27.63 Northern Ireland 44.80 24.69 United Kingdom 48.63 27.01