§ Ms. QuinTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether his Department has figures for pay differentials between low and high-paid workers in the United Kingdom; and if a breakdown of such figures by standard planning region is available.
§ Mr. NichollsAnnual surveys of earnings are conducted concurrently for Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the results are published separately. They provide figures of the average weekly and hourly earnings of different categories of employees and of the distribution of their earnings for a pay period in April. Summary figures are published in table 1 of the reports. Details figures by standard regions of Great Britain are published in part E of the report on the new earnings survey and for Northern Ireland in the separate report on the new earnings survey for Northern Ireland. Copies of the latest, 1988, reports are in the Library.