§ Mr. Hooleyasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity if she will tabulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT the top and bottom points on the basic Burnham scale at 1st October on each of the years from 1959 to 1969, average industrial earnings at the same dates, and the percentage of average industrial earnings which the top and bottom points on the Burnham scale represented on those dates.
§ Mr. Harold WalkerIn the following tables "average industrial earnings", as measured by the results of the Departments April and October earnings enquiry, are compared with the top and bottom points of the basic non-graduate scale. No results are yet available from the October, 1969 enquiry into the earnings of manual workers.
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WOMEN Basic Non-Graduate Burnham Scales October Industrial earnings per week Women (18 years and over) Per annum Minimum Equivalent Per week Col. (4) as percentage of Col.(2) Per annum Maximum Equivalent per week Col. (7) as percentage of Col. (2) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) £ s. d. £ £ s. d. £ £ s. d. 1959 7 0 11 505 9 14 2 137.8 943 18 2 8 257.4 1960 7 8 4 512 9 16 11 132.8 971 18 13 6 251.9 1961 7 14 6 520 10 0 0 129.4 1,000 19 4 7 248.9 1962 8 0 10 570 10 19 2 136.3 1,170 22 10 0 279.9 1963 8 8 3 630 12 2 4 144.0 1,250 24 0 10 285.8 1964 8 19 1 630 12 2 4 135.3 1,250 24 0 10 268.5 1965 9 11 11 730 14 0 10 146.3 1,400 26 18 6 280.6 1966 10 1 4 730 14 0 10 139.5 1,400 26 18 6 267.5 1967 10 11 2 800 15 7 8 145.7 1,500 28 16 11 273.2 1968 11 5 11 800 15 7 8 136.2 1,500 28 16 11 255.4 1969 11 14 3 860 16 10 10 140.9 1,600 30 15 5 262.2
§ Mr. Hooleyasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity if she will list in the OFFICIAL REPORT the percentage increase in average industrial earnings between 1st October, 1964, and 1st October, 1969, and the percentage increase at the lowest and the highest points of the basic Burnham scale.
§ Mr. Harold WalkerThe latest available figures of average industrial earnings relate to a week in April, 1969.Between October, 1964 and April, 1969 in the industries covered by my Department's half-yearly enquiry the average weekly earnings of men, 21 years and over, rose by 32.1 per cent. and those of women, 18 years and over, by 31 per cent. Between 1st October, 1964, and 1st April, 1969, for both men and women teachers the basic non-graduate Burnham scale rose by 36.5 per cent. at the minimum point and 28 per cent. at the maximum point: this scale did not alter between 1st April, 1969, and 1st October, 1969.