§ Miss Quennellasked the Secretary of State for Employment what proportion of average take-home earnings his Department now considers is spent on food by workers in manufacturing industries and others.
§ Mr. Chichester-ClarkI regret that information is not available in the precise form requested. The 1971 Family Expenditure Survey shows that expenditure on food, as a proportion of total household expenditure, for households headed respectively by manual workers and by other workers, was 27.7 per cent. and 23.5 per cent.