§ Mr. Woodallasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give for each year since 1970 average gross weekly earnings in April, the corresponding amount a married man with two children under 11 years of age would have paid in income tax and national insurance con-
Average Gross Weekly Earnings Tax National Insurance Contributions Net Weekly Income April 1970 … … … 26.43 3.56 1.58 22.16 April 1971 … … … 29.42 3.68 1.68 24.96 April 1972 … … … 32.81 3.69 1.95 28.07 April 1973 … … … 37.60 5.12 2.23 31.15 April 1974 … … … 42.65 6.17 2.52 34.86 April 1975 … … … 54.61 10.33 3.00 42.78 1. Estimates of average gross weekly earnings were obtained by applying the monthly index of average earnings—as at April of each year—to the average earnings of full-time manual men aged 21 and over in manufacturing and certain other industries in October of each of the preceding years. 2. Gross weekly earnings as shown do not include family allowances, but the tax on the family allowance, and clawback, have been taken into account in the calculations and the net weekly income includes the family allowance. 3. The tax rates and allowances, and the rates of national insurance contributions, are those in force in April for the tax year commencing in that month. They take no account of any subsequent changes later in the year and assume that the taxpayer is not "contracted out" of the Graduated Pension Scheme.