§ Mrs. Ewingasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity how many employed persons in Scotland have wages of not more than £15 per week; and what percentage of the total number of employed persons in Scotland that number represents.
§ Mr. Harold WalkerThe information available is not quite in the form requested. The results of the Family Expenditure Survey for 1967 indicate that in Scotland 16 per cent. of men, full-time employees, aged 21 and over, and 88 percent. of women full-time employees, aged 18 and over, had normal gross weekly earnings of less than £15 a week. These figures, being based on a relatively small sample are subject to wide margins of error.
315WFigures produced by the Ministry of Social Security from a sample of records relating to those persons who had virtually a full years' employment, showed that in the Income Tax year 1966–67, 16 per cent. of men aged 20 and over and 83 per cent. of women aged 18 and over had earnings of under £750 per annum. These figures, which are also subject to sampling error, exclude persons with low earnings which do not bring them within the scope of the Income Tax P.A.Y.E. arrangements.