§ Mr. William Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Employment, excluding the South-East England Region, what were the average earnings of male manual workers in Scotland in 1973 compared with those in the other regions of England.
§ Mr. BoothOn the basis of the 1973 New Earnings Survey it is estimated that the average gross weekly earnings of full-time manual men, aged 21 or over, whose pay for the survey reference period in April 1973 was not affected by absence were:
- £37.1 in Scotland.
- £37.6 in England excluding the South-East.
These estimates are subject to sampling errors and are given to the nearest 10p.