§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table showing weekly earnings in each of the past five years of nurses, teachers, Civil Service executive officers, personnel managers, doctors, managing directors of the first five category one companies, Civil Service assistant secretaries, chairmen of nationalised industries, chief officials in local government, Scottish advocates, solicitors, farmworkers, hospital ancillary workers, postmen, railway signalmen, catering staff, dustmen, semi-skilled engineering workers, bus drivers, journalists, and textile workers; and what has been the percentage increase between the wage of 1970 and that of today.
§ Mr. BoothMost of these groups are not separately distinguished in my Department's surveys of earnings. The 1970 to 1974 results of the New Earnings Surveys include the following estimates of average gross weekly earnings of full-time men aced 21 and over and women aged 18 and over in Great Britain whose pay for the survey reference pay-period was not affected by absence.
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Women Percentage increase 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1970–74 £ £ £ £ £ Collective agreements Nurses and midwives Whitley Council* 18.40 20.70 23.10 24.20 26.30 42.9 Teachers in primary and secondary schools—England and Wales* 29.10 29.30 33.60 37.50 43.50 49.5 Civil Service—executive grades* — — — — — — National Health Service ancillary staff Whitley Council†* 13.40 16.00 18.30 19.60 27.10 102.2 Post Office manipulative grades† — — — — — — Local authorities manual workers NJC— England and Wales† 12.00 14.10 16.50 19.60 23.30 94.2 Engineering—manual workers (United Kingdom)† 15.10 16.80 19.20 22.10 26.50 75.5 Industries Agriculture and horticulture† — — — — — — Catering services† 10.70 12.30 13.10 15.40 18.30 71.0 Textiles† 13.60 15.20 17.10 19.80 23.00 69.1 Occupation Bus and coach drivers† — — — — — — * Non-manual workers. † Manual workers. The estimates of average earnings are given to the nearest 10p and are subject to sampling error. The survey information relates to one particular pay-period in each April. The results are thus not necessarily representative of pay over a longer period. Some groups may have had a pay increase soon after the survey, some shortly before the survey.
Numbers unemployed Elgin Forres Grantown-on-Spey Nairn Males Females Males Females Males Females Males Females 1974: October … … … 309 149 88 66 18 5 40 15 November … … … 375 190 82 73 15 8 39 29 December … … … ֵ ֵ ֵ ֵ ֵ ֵ ֵ ֵ 1975: January … … … ֵ ֵ ֵ ֵ ֵ ֵ ֵ ֵ February … … … 403 203 116 88 18 6 56 35 March … … … 378 179 92 82 10 5 61 35 April … … … 443 226 98 87 22 7 57 21 May … … … 370 209 94 68 18 3 54 17 June … … … 405 228 93 73 18 4 54 13 Owing to industrial action at local offices of the Employment Service Agency figures for December 1974 and January 1975 are not available.