§ Mr. Dempseyasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT details showing the average wage earned in each of the regions in the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. Lomasasked the Secretary of State for Employment what was the average earnings of the workers—male and female, respectively—in the Yorkshire and Humberside Region; and how this compares with the national average.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithThe relevant regional results of the New Earnings Survey 1973 in Great Britain will become available and be published in my Department'sGazette later this month. I will arrange for them to be published in the OFFICIAL REPORT on about 29th November.
§ Mr. Dempseyasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT details showing the minimum and maximum levels of salaries and wages earned that he takes into account in order to arrive at the average wage.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithThe estimates of average gross weekly earnings obtained from the New Earnings Survey are based on a representative sample of all employees in employment in Great Britain in each April regardless of their332W level of earnings. Table 8 on page 962 of the October issue of the Department of Employment Gazette shows that, of the 88,000 full-time men aged 21 and over included in the sample and whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence, about 1.4 per cent.—1,250—had average gross weekly earnings of £100 or more and about 1.1 per cent.—937—had average gross weekly earnings of less than £18 in April 1973.