§ Mr. Strangasked the Secretary of State for Employment what were the average number of hours per week worked by agricultural workers, workers in manufacturing, workers in all industry and all workers, respectively, in each of the last 10 years.
§ Mr. AlisonThe following figures, relating to adult manual men, are taken from the published reports of the New Earnings Survey. Comparable information for women can be obtained from the same report, copies of which are in the Library.
Average weekly hours of full-time manual males aged 21 and over where pay was not affected by absence. Year Agriculture and horticulture Manufacturing industries Index of production industries All industries and services April 1972 49.1 45.6 45.8 46.0 1973 47.8 46.4 46.6 46.7 1974 49.4 46.2 46.3 46.5 1975 45.9 45.0 45.1 45.5 1976 45.8 45.1 45.2 45.3 1977 47.5 45.6 45.5 45.7 1978 47.8 45.8 45.8 46.0 1979 45.2 46.0 46.0 46.2 1980 46.9 45.0 45.1 45.4 1981 46.4 43.5 43.6 44.2 Source: New Earnings Survey reports 1972 to 1981.
592Wa chart showing the number of unemployed in the employment districts of King's Lynn, Hunstanton, Fakenham, Swaffham and Downham Market for August 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982 together with his estimate of the percentage figure in each case.
§ Mr. Alisonthe following table gives the information at August in each of the years 1979, 1980 and 1981 and at July 1982.