HC Deb 28 July 1975 vol 896 c380W
Mr. Donald Stewart

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what was the average weekly wage for manual workers in the Scottish wool textile industry at the last available date.

Mr. Booth

An inquiry is held each October into the earnings and hours of manual workers in the United Kingdom. The following are the average weekly earnings of full-time manual men, and women, employed in Scotland in October 1974 in the woollen and worsted industry (Minimum List Heading 414 of the 1968 Standard Industrial Classification): men, 21 years and over, £37.86; women, 18 years and over, £24.77.