§ Mr. Molyneauxasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what were the average real earnings of agricultural workers in Northern Ireland, England and Wales and Scotland at the latest convenient date.
§ Mr. GodberThe latest available figures of the total average earnings of hired regular whole-time adult male workers are as follows for the year ending 30th September 1972:
Earnings (a) £ per week Northern Ireland (provisional) 17.04 England and Wales 22.61 Scotland 22.39 (a) Earnings are all cash earnings plus the value of payments-in-kind valued in accordance with wages board orders. Cash earnings in all countries include overtime, pay for statutory holidays and other payments over the statutory minimum.