§ 29. Mr. J. H. Osbornasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will tabulate the 10 industrial groups with the highest average weekly gross earnings, giving the hours worked per week, including overtime, and per year, including holidays and statutory holidays, and expressing this remuneration in hourly and annual terms, indicating how recent wage awards have now altered the position as to which groups receive the highest remuneration.
§ Mr. Chichester-ClarkThe most recent information available on a weekly and an hourly basis relates to October, 1971, and is that given in my reply to my hon. Friend on 2nd March 1972. Information is not available on which to base corresponding annual figures.
Since wage awards in many cases do not conform precisely to Minimum List headings these figures cannot be updated. The industrial analysis of the results of the April, 1972, New Earnings Survey are due to be published in the December issue of this Department's Gazette and the results of the October, 1972, inquiry 100W into the earnings and hours of manual workers in the February, 1973, issue.