§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the estimated cost to the employer per year, in the form of national insurance and other levies, of employing a man earning national average manual earnings.
§ Mr. OrmeAssuming that for March 1976, the latest month for which an earnings index figure is available, average weekly earnings of male manual workers were £63.16, the annual cost to the employer of secondary Class I contributions would be some £287. There will also be a statutory liability on many employers to pay a levy to an industrial training board; no precise estimate can be made of the average cost per worker covered, but it would certainly be small.