HC Deb 09 April 1974 vol 872 cc90-1W
Mr. Ralph Howell

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT tables showing the average weekly earnings of each category of male manual worker over 21 years of age, including agricultural workers, for 1970, 1971, 1972, and 1973.

Mr. Booth

Estimates of average gross weekly earnings obtained from the New Earnings Survey and relating to April 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1973 are given below for various categories of manual men aged 21 and over. They cover employees in all manual occupations in all industries.

he has of the average earnings of those who work in South Dorset, or such part of it for which statistics are available, London, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Great Britain, respectively.

Mr. Booth

The following estimates of average gross weekly earnings were obtained from the New Earnings Survey.

Full-time men aged 21 and over Full-time women aged 18 and over
Area of employment, April 1973 Manual Non-manual Manual Non-manual
£ £ £ £
Central sub-division of South West Region (Dorset (excluding Poole MB) and parts of Somerset and Wiltshire) 34.50 45.90 19.00 23.20
Greater London 40.30 54.70 22.20 28.60
West Midlands Conurbation (parts of Staffordshire, Warwicks (including Birmingham CB) and Worcestershire) 40.70 47.30 20.00 23.80
West Yorkshire (West Riding, including Leeds CB) 35.40 44.70 18.70 23.10
Manchester sub-division (parts of Lancashireand Cheshire) 35.90 45.90 19.10 23.10
Great Britain 38.10 48.10 19.70 24.70

The estimates are given to the nearest 10p and are subject to sampling error.