§ Mr. Richard Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is his estimate of the number of low-paid workers excluded from the new earnings survey as a result of the change in the way the sample was drawn in 1975, which excluded workers below the tax exemption limit.
§ Mr. GoldingThe exclusion from the New Earnings Survey sample of those not covered by PAYE schemes affects an insignificant proportion of full-time adult workers, less than one in five part-time adults, about one in four full-time young persons but the majority of part-time young persons.