§ 62. Mr. Emeryasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the percentage increase of interest and dividends, of wages and salaries, of salaries alone, and of wages alone, respectively, in each year from 1964; and what is the ratio of increase between interest and dividends and wages and salaries over the whole period.
§ Mr. TaverneThe figures requested are given in the table below. They are based on the information given in the White Paper "Preliminary Estimates of National Income and Balance of Payments 1963 to 1968" (Cmnd. 3983). Separate figures for wages and salaries in 1968 are not yet available but will be published later in the year in the National Income Blue Book.
PERCENTAGE CHANGES Payment of dividends and interest by corporate sector Wages and Salaries Wages Salaries 1964 to 1965 14.7 7.6 6.6 9.1 1965 to 1966 6.1 6.6 5.3 8.7 1966 to 1967 3.3 2.8 0.7 5.8 1967 to 1968 12.4 6.6 Not available 1964 to 1968 9.0 5.9 (annual average)