§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the gross weekly earnings of the lowest decile of full-time workers aged under 18 years, whose pay was not affected by absence, for each year since 1979, in both actual and real terms in 1991 prices.
§ Mr. ForthThe earnings information requested is published in table 126 of part E of the new earnings survey report for each year from 1979, for men and women separately. Information for men and women combined is published in table X4 of part B from 1984 to 1988, and in table X4 of part A from 1989 to 1991; it is not available prior to 1984.
Information on the retail prices index (all items) to convert earlier years' figures to 1991 prices is published in table 6.4 of the latest "Employment Gazette" for April 1991, and in table 26 of the annual supplement to "Economic Trends" for April of earlier years.
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