§ Mr. Gwynfor Evansasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Pro- 508W Incomes and estimated to cost over £8 million a year.
In the light of information about other increases in prices and salaries, including technicians' salaries and of advice from the University Grants Committee, I have now decided to make further supplementary grants totalling £20.703 million during the remainder of the current quinquennium ending in July, 1972. The details are:
ductivity what was the employment activity rate in Wales and England, respectively, on the latest date for which the figures are available; and what estimate she has made of the extra number of people in employment in Wales on the basis that the Welsh rate equalled that of England.
§ Mr. Dell:The numbers in civil employment at June, 1969, expressed as a percentage of the home population aged 15 and above, was 50 per cent. for Wales and 59.6 per cent. for England.
If this England civil employment activity rate for 1969 were applied to the Wales home population estimate at mid-1969, the resultant figure would exceed the estimated number in civil employment in Wales at mid-1969 by 200,000.