Earnings (Hansard, 17 March 2003)

§ Mr. Adrian Sanders
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what his estimate is of the percentage of the workforce earning below(a) £75, (b) £100, (c) £120, (d) £150, (e) £175, (f) £200, (g) £225, (h) £250, (i) £275, (j) £300, (k) £325, (l) £350, (m) £375 and (n) £400 per week within each parliamentary constituency. [100398]

§ Ruth Kelly
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr Adrian Sanders, dated 17 March 2003: As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question on the percentage of the workforce earning below various levels within each parliamentary constituency. I am placing the requested information in the House of Commons Library. The tables provided show the proportion of people earning below the different thresholds you listed. Some of the data requested have been suppressed in the answer. This is because the New Earnings Survey (NES) has not been designed to provide estimates at this very detailed level. The NES can provide earnings data for small geographical areas. The release of NES data is restricted to figures that are derived from a sufficiently large sample of employees, and have an acceptable level of accuracy. I have provided the available data only for the constituencies where the samples are large enough. These are based on the 2002 NES, the latest survey for which data are available.

§ Annabelle Ewing
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what percentage of full-time workers in(a) Scotland, (b) each of the unitary local authority 541W areas in Scotland and (c) Great Britain have hourly earnings gross pay (i) including and (ii) excluding overtime below (a) £7.97, (B) £7.32, (C) £5.38 and (D) £4.10 for the categories (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) non-manual and (9) all workers. [99977]

§ Ruth Kelly
[holding answer 3 March 2003]: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Annabelle Ewing dated 17 March 2003: As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question on the distribution of average hourly earnings for workers in Great Britain, Scotland and the unitary authorities in Scotland. (99977) I am placing the requested information in the House of Commons Library. The tables provided show the proportion of people earning below the different thresholds you listed, both including overtime (Table 1) and excluding overtime (Table 2). Some of the data requested have been suppressed in the answer. This is because the New Earnings Survey (NES) has not been designed to provide estimates at this very detailed level. The NES can provide earnings data for small geographical areas. The release of NES data is restricted to figures that are derived from a sufficiently large sample of employees, and have an acceptable level of accuracy and I have provided the available data for Scotland, the unitary authorities in Scotland and Great Britain only for those areas where the samples arc large enough. These are based on the 2002 NES, the latest survey for which data are available.

§ Annabelle Ewing
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list for(a) Scotland and (b) each of the unitary local authority areas in Scotland (i) weekly median earnings and (ii) the per cent. distribution of earnings for those earning (A) under the point below which 10 per cent. of earners fall and (B) the point above which 10 per cent. of earners exceed, broken down by the categories (1) all manual, (2) all non-manual, (3) all workers, (4) male manual, (5) male non-manual, (6) all male workers, (7) female manual, (8) female non-manual and (9) all female workers [99978]

§ Ruth Kelly
[holding answer 3 March 2003]: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Annabelle Ewing dated 17 March 2003: As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question on the distribution of weekly earnings for workers in Scotland and the unitary authorities in Scotland. (99978) I am placing the requested information in the House of Commons Library. The tables provided show median weekly earnings including and excluding overt [me and the earnings at which 10 per cent. of people earn more and 10 per cent. earn less. Some of the data requested have been suppressed in the answer. This is because the New Earnings Survey (NES) has not been designed to provide estimates at this very detailed level. The NES can provide earnings data for small geographical areas. The release of NES data is restricted to figures that are derived from a sufficiently large sample of employees, and have an acceptable level of accuracy and I have provided the available data for Scotland and the unitary authorities in Scotland only for those areas where the samples are large enough. These are based on the 2002 NES, the latest survey for which data are available.