§ Mr. StrangTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the average level of gross weekly earnings for(a) agricultural workers and (b) manual workers in the manufacturing industries in each year since 1979 in cash, constant prices and as a proportion of national average manual earnings.
§ Mr. NichollsInformation for Great Britain, on the average gross weekly earnings of full-time manual male adult employees by industry in April of each year, is published in table 4 of part A of the annual new earnings survey reports, copies of which are in the Library. Information on the retail price index (all items) to deflate the cash figures to constant prices is published for April of each year in table 26 of the annual supplement toEconomic Trends.