§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a table showing the average weekly earnings of all categories of male manual workers over 21 years of age, including agricultural workers, at the latest available date.
§ Mr. BoothThe latest available estimates covering employees in all industries relate to April 1973 and were obtained from the New Earnings Survey. The figure for full-time manual men whose pay for the survey pay period was not affected by absence was given in my reply to the hon. Member's Question on8W 19th March.—[Vol. 870, c. 61.] Corresponding figures for other categories of manual men aged 21 and over are:
All full-time men who received some pay for the survey pay-period £37.0 All part-time men whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence £9.8 All part-time men who received some pay for the survey pay-period £9.7 "Part-time" means those expected to work for not more than 30 hours in a normal week, excluding main meal breaks and overtime.