§ Mr. Dykesasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the figures for registered unemployed and unfilled vacancies in the South-East and the greater London area, respectively, for the latest month for which statistics are available, in comparison with the levels for a year earlier.
§ Mr. Chichester-ClarkFollowing is the information:
§ Mr. Chichester-ClarkIt is estimated that basic weekly wage rates rose between 30th April 1972 and 28th February 1973 by 11.3 per cent. on average for all manual workers in electricity supply and by 15.7 per cent. for those in rail services, other than railway workshops. For men only the corresponding figures were 11.3 per cent. and 15.8 per cent., respectively.