§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table showing the increase in output per head in(a) the manufacturing and (b) the non-manufacturing sectors since June 1979 together with percentage increases between April 1979 and April 1989 in the real earnings of (i) full-time adult male workers in manufacturing and (ii) full-time adult male non-manual workers in the private sector, less manufacturing.
§ Mr. NichollsThe increases in output per head in manufacturing and non-manufacturing between the second quarter of 1979 and the second quarter of 1989 were 48 per cent. and 12 per cent. respectively.
The real increase in the weekly earnings of full-time adult males in manufacturing between April 1979 and April 1989 was 23 per cent. Figures are not readily available for the private sector less manufacturing and would involve disproportionate cost to compile.
§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment, further to his written reply to the hon. Member for Great Grimsby, dated 11 December 1989,Official Report, column 467–68, concerning increases in weekly and hourly earnings of certain full-time adult male workers, whether he will provide similar information for (a) public sector manual workers, (b) public sector non-manual workers, (c) manufacturing non-manual workers and (d) other private sector non-manual workers.
§ Mr. NichollsThe available information is provided in the following table. Figures for item(d) are not readily available and would involve disproportionate cost to compile. The "public sector" and "manufacturing" are not. mutually exclusive groupings and are thus not directly comparable.
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Percentage increase in weekly and hourly earnings of full-time adult male employees1 per cent. Manual Non-manual Public sector Public sector Manufacturing April of each year Weekly earnings Hourly earnings Weekly earnings Hourly earnings Weekly earnings Hourly earnings 19802 23.2 26.1 27.2 27.4 23.0 23.3 19812 11.0 13.2 17.5 16.9 11.7 13.7 19822 9.4 9.4 8.6 10.2 12.1 11.2 19833 6.8 8.9 7.8 8.3 8.2 8.4 1984 5.9 5.4 6.7 6.3 10.7 10.4 1985 5.1 4.8 5.6 5.4 8.7 8.2 1986 7.3 6.9 8.0 8.0 10.2 10.1 1987 4.5 4.6 6.7 6.3 7.0 6.7 1988 8.5 7.8 9.2 9.3 9.8 8.9 1989 4.9 4.7 8.3 8.7 10.3 10.3 1 Average gross weekly and hourly earnings, not affected by absence for those on adult rates; manufacturing as defined in the 1980 SIC (butsee notes 2 and 3. 2 Males aged 21 and over on all rates; 1968 SIC definition of manufacturing. 3 Males aged 21 and over on all rates; 1980 SIC definition of manufacturing.