HC Deb 08 December 1989 vol 163 cc426-7W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will provide for both full-time adult males and females figures corresponding to those given in his answer of I NovemberOfficial Report, column 240, in cash and in percentages for the period 1979 to 1989, together with the number of employees represented by each category at each of the dates.

Mr. Nicholls

The available information is provided in the table:

Notes:

1. Earnings data relates to full-time adult employees in Great Britain whose earnings were not affected by absence.

2. Estimates of employees in employment in Great Britain are taken from the regularly published employment series.

3. na denotes not available.

Mr. Austin Mitchell

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will publish in theOfficial Report a table showing the increase in output per head and the corresponding averages and medians for manual and non-manuals in each case with a further breakdown for each of the principal manufacturing industry groups for the last 10 years to April.

Mr. Nicholls

Information is not available on output per head in the form requested. Output per head for the principal manufacturing industry groups is given in table 7.2 of the Monthly Digest of Statistics.