§ Mr. Atkinsonasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the latest figure for the national average wage for manual workers.
§ Mr. BoothThe most recent figures of the value of earnings are for October 1974 and come from this Department's inquiry into the earnings and hours of manual workers in manufacturing and certain other industries in October each year. The average gross weekly earnings of full-time manual men, aged 21 and over, in the United Kingdom were then £48.63. The coresponding figure for women manual workers, aged 18 and over, was £27.01.
Between October 1974 and May 1975, the monthly index of average earnings, which relates to non-manual as well as manual workers, and to a somewhat
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UNEMPLOYED July 1975 July 1974 July 1970 Men aged 18 and over Women aged 18 and over Young people aged under 18 Men aged 18 and over Women aged 18 and over Young people aged under 18 Men aged 18 and over Women aged 18 and over Young people aged under 18 Acton 552 131 44 291 68 20 320 48 20 Barking 871 109 69 485 37 15 566 34 11 Barnet 524 126 28 304 33 10 207 21 13 Beckenham and and Penge 619 129 58 387 33 11 418 45 18 Bermondsey 572 36 24 332 18 — 406 12 — Bexley 631 100 28 391 34 18 423 56 19 Borough 1,709 283 135 1,050 133 70 928 107 63 Brentford and Chiswick 534 111 13 279 40 13 222 31 2 Brixton 4,307 932 324 2,415 386 107 2,526 305 83 Bromley 1,171 253 82 619 81 30 426 60 33 Camberwell 2,021 402 108 1,288 92 50 1,333 134 48 Camden Town 2,007 576 103 1,159 259 29 1,265 184 28 Canning Town 1,399 148 189 860 43 64 941 55 56 City of London* 19 3 — 24 46 — 532 174 — Clapham Junction 2,034 359 135 1,035 134 52 1,154 122 84 Croydon 2,926 443 218 1,228 163 44 1,270 138 45 Dagenham 1,379 161 97 778 60 55 847 79 42 Deptford and Greenwich 1,639 243 93 940 104 54 898 78 53 Ealing 1,264 353 69 678 128 20 615 90 21 East Ham 1,030 150 85 462 28 17 773 40 31 Enfield 850 191 57 383 43 9 388 14 8 Erith 511 68 40 234 18 10 555 35 25 Feltham 259 58 22 122 11 9 128 19 15 Finchley 674 199 25 452 82 9 367 61 8 wider range of industries, shows a rise of about 13½ per cent.