§ Mr. Woodallasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give for each year since 1970 overall average male gross weekly earnings, namely the figure of all adult male employees, manual and non-manual, whose pay was not affected by absence, as shown in the April New Earnings Survey, the corresponding
Average Gross Weekly Earnings(1) Tax National Insurance Contributions Net Weekly Income April 1970 … … 29.70 4.64 1.69 24.27 April 1971 … … 33.00 4.75 1.70 27.45 April 1972 … … 36.70 4.86 2.12 30.62 April 1973 … … 41.90 6.41 2.44 33.95 April 1974 … … 47.70 7.83 2.78 37.99 April 1975 … … 60.80 12.50 3.34 46.46 Notes:
(1) April New Earnings Survey figures for all adult male employees whose pay was not affected by absence.
(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. It has been assumed that the taxpayer is not "contracted out" of the graduated pension scheme.