§ Mr. Sproatasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the percentage difference at the latest available date between the average basic wage in Scotland and that in England and Wales and in the United Kingdom as a whole; and what the respective differences were in June 1970.
§ Mr. Chichester-ClarkThis Department does not compile estimates of average basic wage rates. Figures of average earnings by area are compiled regularly, however, and the following table gives information taken from the New Earnings Survey in Great Britain: