§ Ms SquireTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) if he will list the average weekly earnings(A) including and (B) excluding overtime for part-time workers in (a) Scotland, (b) each of the unitary local authority areas in Scotland and (c) Great Britain, broken down for men and women in (i) manual employment, (ii) non-manual employment and (iii) in total; [27331]
(2) if he will list the proportion of full-time workers in (a) Scotland, (b) each of the unitary local authority areas in Scotland and (c) Great Britain with hourly gross earnings (A) including and (B) excluding overtime below (i) £6.61, (ii) £6.15 (iii) £4.61 and (iv) £3.80 broken down by (1) male manual, (2) male non-manual, (3) all male workers, (4) female manual, (5) female non-manual, (6) all female workers, (7) all manual, (8) all non-manual and (9) all workers; [27328]
(3) if he will list the percentage of workers on adult rates of pay in part-time employment whose hourly earnings (A) including and (B) excluding overtime pay are less than (i) £4.61 per hour, (ii) £6.15 per hour, (iii) £6.60 per hour and (iv) average weekly earnings in (a) Scotland, (b) each of the unitary local authority areas in Scotland and (c) Great Britain, broken down by (1) male manual, (2) male 576W non-manual (3) all male workers, (4) female manual, (5) female non-manual, (6) all female workers (7) all manual, (8) all non-manual and (9) all workers; [27330]
(4) if he will list the percentage of full-time workers in (a) Scotland, (b) each of the unitary local authority areas in Scotland and (c) Great Britain earning in gross (A) including and (b) excluding overtime less than (i) £249.97 per week, (ii) £233.13 per week and (iii) £174.85 per week broken down by (1) male manual (2) male non-manual, (3) all male workers, (4) female manual, (5) female non-manual, (6) all female workers, (7) all manual, (8) all non-manual and (9) all workers; [27327]
(5) if he will list the average gross weekly earnings (i) including and (ii) excluding overtime for full-time workers in (a) Scotland, (b) each of the unitary local authority areas in Scotland and (c) Great Britain for (1) all manual, (2) all non-manual and (3) all workers; [27326]
(6) if he will list for (a) Scotland, and (b) each of the unitary local authority areas in Scotland and (1) average weekly earnings, (2) weekly median earnings and (3) the distribution of earnings for those earning (a) under the point below which 10 per cent. of earners fall, (b) the point above which 10 per cent. of earners exceed, broken down by (i) manual, (ii) non-manual and (iii) all workers. [27329]
§ Mrs. LiddellThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the Chief Executive of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Tim Holt to Ms Rachel Squire, dated 3 February 1998:
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has asked me to reply, as the Director of the Office for National Statistics, to your recent questions (27326, 27327, 27328, 27329, 27330 and 27331) on earnings in the unitary local authority areas in Scotland, Scotland as a whole and in Great Britain.The information requested can only be provided at disproportionate cost. There is a considerable amount of data available in the House of Commons library. This provides various distribution ranges of hourly earnings excluding overtime, by location. Areas covered range from parliamentary constituencies and local authority districts to Government Office regions and Great Britain.