HC Deb 07 April 1989 vol 150 c299W
Mr. Gordon Brown

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many workers currently earn below the national insurance contributions lower earnings limit; and how many of them are(a) part-time women, and (b) part-timers.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

About 2.5 million people will earn less than the lower earnings limit in 1989–90; 95 per cent. are part-timers, and about seven out of eight of these are women.

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