Earnings (Hansard, 14 February 1994)

§ Miss Widdecombe

Information by each travel-to-work area is not available. The following tables provide details of average earnings by area at April of each of the last five years. The information on the retail prices index, all items, at April, to convert 1989 figures to 1993 prices is published in table 6.4 of theEmployment Gazette and in table 26 of the annual supplement to "Economic Trends" for April of earlier years.

The majority of areas show a positive change in real earnings over the five-year period. Outside London and the 650W south-east there is little evidence of any great disparity in earnings. Any differences that do exist result from the concentration of industries and occupations with relatively lower earnings in certain regions.

Average gross weekly earnings of full time adults—pay unaffected by absence: at April
	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993
	£	£	£	£	£
Great Britain	239.7	263.1	284.7	304.6	316.9
England and Wales	241.5	265.0	286.6	306.4	319.0
England	242.7	266.7	288.3	308.1	320.9
Wales	215.9	232.1	252.2	270.9	281.2
Scotland	221.4	244.0	265.3	286.7	296.8
South East Region	275.0	303.6	326.7	348.6	365.5
Greater London	304.6	336.3	361.1	385.3	408.0
City of London	408.5	455.1	486.0	510.4	543.3
Barking	271.8	296.5	322.4	340.9	363.2
Barnet	272.6	308.4	305.0	318.0	345.4
Bexley	257.5	281.1	317.1	354.7	339.0
Brent	265.4	295.4	316.4	336.3	364.1
Bromley	257.9	285.4	288.0	305.8	321.5
Camden	317.0	346.9	368.7	390.6	404.2
Croydon	265.2	296.0	321.8	339.8	342.0
Ealing	270.9	307.2	336.1	356.3	361.9
Enfield	252.6	270.1	298.8	326.0	339.4
Greenwich	254.6	268.8	292.4	310.6	330.1
Hackney	310.4	353.9	374.0	—	—
Hammersmith	289.3	316.2	352.4	373.2	393.6
Haringey	242.1	272.0	283.7	303.0	323.1
Harrow	267.6	286.0	322.7	335.4	349.8
Havering	239.1	258.6	292.2	315.5	319.3
Hillingdon	280.6	309.4	327.1	382.6	422.8
Hounslow	311.2	345.0	354.8	365.3	357.9
Islington	290.2	330.1	360.0	388.4	425.3
Kensington and Chelsea	284.6	311.9	335.2	358.3	371.9
Kingston-upon-Thames	269.0	292.1	324.6	364.9	361.4
Lambeth	310.9	340.2	370.9	381.6	418.5
Lewisham	252.7	266.4	299.5	325.1	336.3
Merton	269.4	294.6	316.2	332.9	366.0
Newham	255.8	280.4	313.5	338.5	358.8
Redbridge	240.5	274.2	287.1	319.1	339.9
Richmond-upon-Thames	274.6	299.6	332.7	347.1	350.0
Southwark	315.0	344.4	367.5	396.7	412.4
Sutton	279.5	321.1	319.5	335.8	340.1
Tower Hamlets	319.3	351.1	382.7	423.9	474.3
Waltham Forest	235.9	263.2	283.1	304.7	305.0
Wandsworth	260.9	294.1	307.9	332.9	372.5
City of Westminster	329.9	365.1	397.8	415.7	447.3
Remainder of South East region	248.5	274.0	295.3	315.6	328.7
Bedfordshire	244.4	269.3	287.4	314.9	324.3
Berkshire	276.1	299.3	326.6	349.1	370.0
Buckinghamshire	261.2	290.4	307.1	326.1	330.6
East Sussex	220.3	238.6	260.9	272.7	287.8
Essex	242.9	268.4	287.2	305.5	316.7
Hampshire	241.7	266.9	285.6	306.6	322.5
Hertfordshire	259.8	290.3	314.2	326.7	342.1
Isle of Wight	217.6	225.5	255.2	270.8	259.9
Kent	235.7	256.3	280.4	298.6	308.3
Oxfordshire	237.6	264.1	285.5	307.9	327.6
Surrey	266.0	299.6	322.2	346.0	362.4
West Sussex	248.3	270.6	287.8	314.4	320.9

651W

	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993
	£	£	£	£	£
East Anglia Region	227.3	249.6	268.9	288.4	292.2
Cambridgeshire	236.2	261.8	280.7	299.6	306.9
Norfolk	220.3	239.5	259.1	280.5	281.4
Suffolk	224.9	246.4	266.0	283.9	286.8
South West Region	225.0	246.8	265.5	283.1	298.4
Avon	241.3	263.0	283.9	296.1	315.0
Cornwall	196.3	214.2	219.9	239.5	252.4
Devon	203.6	227.1	243.4	263.9	280.4
Dorset	225.4	247.5	261.1	278.4	292.0
Gloucestershire	230.1	251.4	276.9	294.8	306.7
Somerset	226.3	236.2	256.3	272.6	287.2
Wiltshire	234.0	262.0	281.2	306.1	319.4
West Midlands Region	220.4	240.6	261.1	279.9	291.9
West Midlands MC	225.2	247.7	268.1	287.8	301.3
Hereford and Worcester	208.0	227.6	246.1	262.8	279.8
Shropshire	202.1	222.9	242.5	263.0	275.4
Staffordshire	215.6	230.9	251.7	268.7	273.6
Warwickshire	230.7	246.6	270.8	290.8	299.9
East Midlands Region	216.3	241.6	261.3	276.1	285.7
Derbyshire	217.2	250.9	269.5	281.0	288.9
Leicestershire	212.0	237.5	257.9	169.9	285.0
Lincolnshire	207.7	226.6	244.9	263.7	270.5
Northamptonshire	224.0	250.6	265.3	286.6	298.7
Nottinghamshire	220.3	241.6	263.4	277.5	283.7
Yorkshire/Humberside Region	219.7	239.6	257.9	277.3	287.4
South Yorkshire MC	224.8	242.7	263.6	280.3	287.2
West Yorkshire MC	217.1	241.1	257.9	278.3	288.9
Humberside	222.4	237.6	252.5	275.9	286.3
North Yorkshire	215.6	231.0	253.1	270.2	283.3
North West Region	283.6	244.5	267.1	285.5	298.8
Greater Manchester MC	223.1	243.0	267.1	285.8	297.2
Merseyside MC	222.9	242.9	265.0	282.0	297.2
Cheshire	237.8	261.4	284.0	303.1	325.6
Lancashire	214.1	235.7	254.8	274.5	281.7
North Region	216.1	236.7	258.0	282.3	288.6
Tyne and Wear Metropolitan Council	212.7	234.2	257.4	282.3	287.0
Cleveland	234.4	246.3	267.1	291.6	297.9
Cumbria	220.1	246.7	270.1	287.0	299.2
Durham	206.3	230.5	245.2	272.7	279.9
Northumberland	206.1	221.1	247.0	273.6	276.3
Wales	215.9	232.1	252.2	270.9	281.2
Clwyd	215.2	236.7	253.0	271.9	281.6
Clywd, West	200.1	223.3	231.5	254.1	262.2
Clwyd, East	222.0	242.3	262.1	280.2	290.6
Dyfed (excluding Llanelli)	205.0	220.3	236.2	250.6	274.8
Gwent	212.2	226.6	250.6	263.6	273.1
Gwynedd	215.3	225.5	246.3	259.7	264.1
Mid-Glamorgan	220.0	232.7	249.9	270.7	278.5
Powys	206.2	210.1	226.8	251.6	262.5
South Glamorgan	224.4	245.0	265.4	282.2	299.3
West Glamorgan (including Llanelli)	213.4	230.5	253.7	281.1	283.0
Scotland	221.4	244.0	265.3	286.7	296.8
Borders	187.9	205.7	242.9	258.2	262.5
Central	220.0	238.5	257.7	281.8	295.5
Dumfries and Galloway	207.6	226.5	239.4	255.1	264.7
Fife	206.2	228.7	251.9	273.4	280.6
Grampian	2253.8	287.6	318.8	336.9	336.2
Highland	211.6	229.2	253.2	269.3	273.7
Lothian	223.9	244.8	2263.2	290.8	306.2

652W

	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993
	£	£	£	£	£
Strathclyde	219.7	243.1	260.6	279.3	293.3
Tayside	204.5	222.4	248.1	269.3	280.2
Orkney, Shetlands, Western Isles	..	..	..	..	..
Highlands and Islands	219.7	232.3	261.5	280.2	280.5

Source: New Earnings Survey.

Note: ".." denotes sample too small and/or standard error too large for reliable estimate.