§ Mr. McAllionTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many full-time workers, by number and by percentage, earned less than the average earnings figure for all full-time workers in(a) Scotland and (b) the United Kingdom in the most recent year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. Nicholls[holding answer 23 April 1990]: Based on the distribution of earnings in the 1989 new earnings survey sample, the estimated proportion of full-time employees in Scotland was 61 per cent. The proportion of full-time employees in Great Britain earning less than the equivalent average for Great Britain was also 61 per cent. Information for the United Kingdom is not readily available.