§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish the latest figures available showing the ratio of after-tax income between the highest decile and the lowest decile of 416W employment incomes in each of the following countries: United States of America, Canada, Japan, Sweden, each of the EEC Member States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and East Germany.
§ Mr. Robert SheldonI regret that the information requested is not available from international sources. For the United Kingdom, the ratio of the after-tax income of the highest to the lowest decile of employment income is 2.01:1.
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(a) The figures are for full-time male workers as at April 1977 (Source—New Earnings Survey 1977 Table A23).
(b) the tax allowances used are those for a married man without children after the October 1977 changes.