§ Mr. WigleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is his estimate for the most recent available date of the proportion of households in Wales and Scotland and in each of the standard regions of England, respectively, whose annual household income is below £4,000 per annum.
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§ Mr. LeeThe information for 1986, which is the latest year available, as set out as follows, comes from the family expenditure survey and relates to average gross household income in Wales, Scotland and the standard regions of England. The results are subject to sampling errors and should be treated with caution; percentages are subject to errors of about plus or minus 3 per cent.
Households with gross income below £4,000 per annum (1986) Region Number in sample Percentage of all households Total number of households 1,363 19.3 North 102 23.7 Yorkshire and Humberside 165 24.8 North West 173 20.8 East Midlands 104 21.2 West Midlands 124 19.1 East Anglia 39 15.0 South East—total 327 15.5 Greater London 146 18.3 Rest of South East 181 13.7 South West 85 15.1 Wales 72 18.5 Scotland 172 26.4