§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will publish a table showing the percentage increase in rank order since April 1979 in average weekly earnings in real terms for full-time adult male manual workers, including overtime and excluding absence, in mechanical engineering, motor-vehicle and parts industries, clothing, textiles, footwear, domestic electrical applicances, banking and finance, estate agency and property dealing, building societies, insurance business services, water, gas, telecommunications, petroleum tanker-drivers, underground coal-miners, national health service ancillary staff, national health service maintenance staff, hospital porters, ambulance men, hospital ward orderlies and primary teachers.
Mr. JacksonInformation on the average gross weekly earnings of full-time adult male manual employees is published by agreement, by industry and by occupation in part A of the annual new earnings survey reports for the years in question. Information is not available for manual workers in all the categories specified, nor do all the job descriptions specified precisely match the recognised standard classifications used in the survey. Information on the retail prices index (all items), to convert the figures to 1990 prices, is published for April 1990 in table 6.4 of the latestEmployment Gazette, and in table 26 of the annual supplement to Economic Trends for April of earlier years. Copies of these publications are available in the Library.
§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will publish a table showing the percentage increase in average weekly earnings in real terms for full-time adult male manual workers in the154W public sector including overtime and excluding absence in the years 1970 to 1974, 1974 to 1979, 1979 to 1990 and 1985 to 1990 together with the corresponding figures for non-manuals in respectively, manufacturing, the public sector and the rest of the economy; and whether he will provide corresponding data for females.
Mr. JacksonInformation on the average gross weekly earnings of full-time adult, manual and non-manual employees in the public sector is published in table 1 of part A of the annual new earnings survey (NES) reports from 1979 onwards, and in a special article in the December 1977Employment Gazette for earlier years. The categories "manufacturing", "public sector" and "rest of the economy" are not mutually exclusive groupings and data for them are thus not directly comparable. However, information for manual and non-manual employees in manufacturing and non-manufacturing, respectively, is published in table 4 of part A of the NES reports for the years in question, with the exception of data for non-manufacturing in 1990 which are as follows:
Males £ Females £ Manuals 227.1 143.4 Non-Manuals 352.1 217.3 Information on the retail prices index (all items), to convert the figures to 1990 prices, is published for April 1990 in table 6.4 of the Employment Gazette, and in table 26 of the annual supplement to Economic Trends for April of earlier years. Copies of the publications are available in the Library.
§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will publish a table showing the industries on a three-digit basis in which the increase in real average weekly earnings since 1979 has been(a) less than half and (b) more than half the increase for the whole economy with his best estimate of the increase in output per head in each case over that period.
Mr. JacksonThe available information on average gross weekly earnings at 3 digit standard industrial classification (SIC) level is published in part C of the new earnings survey reports for the years in question. Information on the retail prices index (all items) to convert the figures to 1990 prices is published for April 1990 in table 6.4 of the latestEmployment Gazette and in table 26 of the annual supplement Economic Trends for April of earlier years. Comparable figures are not available for output per head at three digit SIC level. Copies of the publications are available in the Library.
§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will publish a table showing the percentage increase in average weekly earnings in real terms for full-time adult and male manual workers in manufacturing including overtime and excluding absence in the years April 1970 to 1974, 1974 to 1979, 1979 to 1990 and 1985 to 1990 together with the corresponding figures for non-manuals generally; and whether he will provide corresponding data for females.
Mr. JacksonInformation on the average gross weekly earnings of full-time adult, manual and non-manual employees in manufacturing is published in tables 4–7 of Part A of the annual new earnings survey reports for the 155W years in question. Information on the retail prices index (all items) to convert the figures to 1990 prices is published for April 1990 in table 6.4 of the latest Employment Gazette, and in table 26 of the annual supplement Economic Trends for April of earlier years. Copies of the publications are available in the Library.