§ Mr. SheermanTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what has been the average increase in real terms in the wages of local authority manual workers since 1979. [21060]
§ Mr. Robert B. JonesInformation from the "New Earnings Survey", adjusted by the retail prices index, indicates that the average increase in real terms from April 1979 to April 1994, the latest date for which information is available, in the wages of local authority manual workers in England and Wales was 24.5 per cent.