§ Mr. Nottasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what was the average weekly wage before tax, employment income under Schedule E, for the United Kingdom, England, Wales, Scotland and the county of Cornwall in the fiscal year 1964–65;
(2) what was the total net annual income before tax, including profits and professional earnings, Schedule D, employment income, Schedule E, and net investment income for the United Kingdom, England, Wales, Scotland and the county of Cornwall, respectively, in the fiscal year 1964–65;
(3) what was the average weekly wage before tax, employment income under Schedule E. and the total net annual income before tax in Cornwall, Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, and the Scottish Highlands—Caithness, Inverness, Orkney, Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland and Zetland—in the fiscal year 1964–65;
(4) which county in England had the lowest and the second lowest average weekly wage before tax, employment income under Schedule E, and total net annual income in the fiscal year 1964–65.
§ Mr. MacDermotThe available information is given below.
The figures are based on the Board of Inland Revenue's Survey of Personal Incomes for 1964–65, the main results of which are published in the Board's 109th Report; and they should be interpreted in the light of the notes on pages 92–96 of that Report. Since they relate only 226W to persons with total net incomes over £275, the figures for counties do not completely correspond to those published in Table 126 of the Report, which include some incomes below £275.
The figures relate to incomes for the whole of the fiscal year; they therefore contain part-year earnings of persons entering or leaving employment in the course of the year. Since these cannot be separately identified, it is impossible to derive any figures of average weekly wages; and there is no alternative official source which provides a direct estimate of average weekly wages for the whole of the economy for the financial year 1964–65.
Country or County Average employment income (excluding wives' earnings Total net income Nos. 56 and 57 (£ p.a.) (£m.) United Kingdom … 877.4 21,151 England … 890.3 18,316 Wales … 843.8 823 Scotland … 798.1 1,671 Cornwall … 724.2 94
County or group of counties Average annual employment income (excluding wives' earnings) Average total net income No. 58 (£ p.a.) (£ p.a.) Cornwall 724.2 906.1 Pembrokeshire 747.8 894.6 Carmarthenshire 904.5 891.7 Scottish Highlands 723.8 867.9 No. 59 The English counties with the lowest and second lowest average annual employment income (excluding wives' earnings) are Cornwall and Westmorland respectively; those with the lowest and second lowest average total net annual income are Cornwall and Durham.