§ Mr. Carterasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report the average wage for each of the regions of the United Kingdom for each of the past 10 years.
§ Mr. BoothThe following information comes from the Department's October inquiries into the earnings and hours of manual workers in manufacturing and certain other industries. Differences in 203W average earnings between regions include the effects of different industrial and occupational structures; they do not,
MEN MANUAL WORKERS, 21 YEARS AND OVER AVERAGE WEEKLY EARNINGS BY REGION October London and South-East Eastern and Southern South-West Midlands Yorkshire and Humberside £ £ £ £ £ 1966 … 21.46 20.30 18.84 20.68 19.22 South-East East Anglia West Midlands East Midlands £ £ £ £ 1967 … 22.22 19.69 19.86 22.22 20.85 20.20 1968 … 23.99 21.21 21.35 24.14 22.27 21.70 1969 … 25.88 22.75 22.91 26.15 23.77 23.40 1970 … 29.05 25.90 26.02 29.49 26.91 26.43 1971 … 32.51 28.70 28.79 31.72 29.34 28.75 1972 … 37.18 34.68 33.50 37.21 34.26 33.64 1973 … 42.30 39.05 38.85 42.03 39.38 39.06 1974 … 50.57 46.56 45.98 49.40 46.44 46.69 1975 … 61.42 56.74 55.99 58.95 56.61 57.54 October North-West North Wales Scotland Northern Ireland United Kingdom £ £ £ £ £ £ 1966 … 19.85 19.58 20.09 19.58 17.06 20.30 1967 … 21.04 20.65 21.14 20.77 18.37 21.38 1968 … 22.72 22.06 22.91 22.30 19.65 23.00 1969 … 24.33 24.22 24.46 24.10 21.00 24.83 1970 … 27.88 27.18 27.93 27.04 24.14 28.05 1971 … 30.57 30.30 31.10 29.88 27.48 30.93 1972 … 35.48 35.12 35.61 34.93 31.59 35.82 1973 … 40.28 40.05 40.52 40.35 36.37 40.92 1974 … 47.91 47.77 47.55 48.37 44.80 48.63 1975 … 58.80 61.44 58.19 60.71 54.83 59.58