§ Mr. Tony LloydTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if she will provide the latest figures for numbers of full-time employees on adult rates in(a) Greater Manchester, (b) Merseyside, (c) Cheshire, (d) Lancashire and (e) the north-west region whose weekly earnings excluding overtime were less than £200 and less than £190 under the headings: manual males, non-manual males and all full-time males; manual females, non-manual females, and all full-time females, giving total numbers of employees in the sample in each case; and what is the number of part-time employees on adult rates in (i) Greater Manchester, (ii) Merseyside, (iii) Cheshire, (iv) Lancashire and (v) the north-west region whose hourly earnings excluding overtime were less than £5.40 and less than £4.80 under the following headings: manual females, non-manual females and all part-time females; manual males, non-manual males and all part-time males, giving total number of employees in the sample in each case.
§ Mr. McLoughlinThe information available from the "New Earnings Survey" is provided in the following tables. No relevant information is available on part-time men.
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Full-time employees on adult rates of pay whose pay was not affected by absence for the survey pay period Percentage with average gross weekly earnings (excluding overtime) below the following amounts: April 1992 £190 £200 Sample number Per cent. Sample number Per cent. Manual men Greater Manchester 592 35.2 713 42.4 Merseyside 246 32.8 291 38.7 Cheshire 229 32.4 268 37.9 Lancashire 377 40.5 449 48.2 North West 1,444 35.5 1,721 42.3 Non-manual men Greater Manchester 274 14.9 317 17.2
£190 £200 Sample number Per cent. Sample number Per cent. Merseyside 122 15.2 156 19.4 Cheshire 73 9.8 87 11.7 Lancashire 147 16.3 177 19.6 North West 616 14.4 737 17.2 All men Greater Manchester 866 24.6 1,030 29.3 Merseyside 368 23.7 447 28.7 Cheshire 302 20.8 355 24.5 Lancashire 524 28.6 626 34.2 North West 2,060 24.7 2,458 29.4 Manual Women Greater Manchester 315 81.0 333 85.6 Merseyside 107 72.8 119 81.0 Cheshire 108 78.3 114 82.6 Lancashire 172 80.8 184 86.4 North West 702 79.1 750 84.6 Non-manual women Greater Manchester 677 41.1 789 47.8 Merseyside 344 42.8 396 49.3 Cheshire 247 40.6 282 46.4 Lancashire 306 41.4 363 49.1 North West 1,574 41.4 1,830 48.2 All women Greater Manchester 992 48.7 1,122 55.1 Merseyside 451 47.5 515 54.2 Cheshire 355 47.6 396 53.1 Lancashire 478 50.2 547 57.4 North West 2,276 48.6 2,580 55.0
Part time women on adult rates of pay whose pay was not affected by absence for the survey pay period Percentage with average gross hourly earnings (excluding overtime) below the following amounts: April 1992 £4.80 £5.40 Sample number Per cent. Sample number Per cent. Manual Greater Manchester 323 91.0 341 96.1 Merseyside 197 78.5 220 87.6 Cheshire 126 91.3 130 94.2 Lancashire 207 87.7 220 93.2 North West 853 87.0 911 93.0 Non-manual Greater Manchester 379 63.7 423 71.1 Merseyside 202 59.2 227 66.6 Cheshire 154 63.6 179 74.0 Lancashire 227 64.1 264 74.6 North West 962 62.8 1,093 71.3 All Greater Manchester 702 73.9 764 80.4 Merseyside 399 67.4 447 75.5 Cheshire 280 73.7 309 81.3 Lancashire 434 73.6 484 82.0 North West 1,815 72.3 2,004 79.8 Source: 1992 New Earnings Survey