§ Mr. RuaneTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list the number of people likely to benefit from the introduction of the national minimum wage in each parliamentary constituency. [61804]
§ Ms HewittI have been asked to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Director of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Tim Holt to Mr. Chris Ruane, dated 1 December 1998:
As the Director of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your recent parliamentary question on the number of people likely to benefit from the introduction of the national minimum wage.
It is ONS policy to reply to statistical PQs, where possible, by referring to published results. Information from the 1998 New Earnings Survey (NES) required to answer this question is not comprehensively published. but is included in special tables recently placed in the House of Commons Library.