§ 80. Mr. Osborneasked the Minister of Labour the total national wage increases granted in the year 1951.
§ Sir W. MoncktonThe total amount of wage increases granted in 1951 is not known, but it is estimated that increases in weekly rates of wages granted in 1951 to workpeople in industries covered by my Department's statistics, amounted to about £6½ million a week at the end of the year.