HC Deb 21 October 1968 vol 770 c195W
3. Mr. Judd

asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what are the latest available figures on average earnings in Portsmouth as compared with those in South-East England and Great Britain as a whole.

Mr. Harold Walker

Reliable estimates of earnings in Portsmouth are not available. According to the results of the April, 1968 inquiry into the earnings of manual workers, the average weekly earnings of adult male manual workers in the South-East region and in the United Kingdom were £23 5s. 10d. and £22 5s. 3d. respectively.