§ Mr. Bakerasked the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will estimate, in the case of each quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation for which he is responsible (a) its total expenditure in the current year and (b) its total expenditure on administration, accommodation and general services, defined to include items such as salaries, telephones and postage, rent, rates, heating, travelling, transport, office equipment and so on.
§ Mr. John GrantThere is no official definition of a quasi-autonomous nongovernmental body. Estimates of expenditure in 1978–79 for those bodies to which I make appointments and which are wholly or largely financed by my Department are:
estimate of the number of adults with a basic wage, excluding overtime, of less than £45 a week; and how many of these are in the public sector.
§ Mr. Harold WalkerThe latest available information on distributions of earnings excluding overtime pay is derived from the new earnings survey. It relates to April 1978 and to full-time workers whose pay for the survey reference period was not affected by absence. It indicates 439W that there were then about 2.1 million such workers aged 18 and over—0.6 million males and 1.5 million females—with gross earnings of less than £45 per week, excluding overtime pay. The corresponding estimates for the public sector excludes males aged 18 to 20 and are less than 0.1 million males and about 0.3 million females.