§ Mr. Georgeasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report the average weekly wage of (a) male and (b) female workers for each year for which statistics are available.
§ Mr. GoldingAn extensive range of estimates of average weekly earnings has been produced during the present and the last century. Many are published in the Historical Abstract and Yearbooks of British Labour Statistics and the Department of Employment Gazette.
646WTable C on pages 524 to 526 of the May 1978 issue of the Department of Employment Gazette, for example, gives series from 1948 to 1977 for full-time manual men and women covered by the Department's regular October inquiries. I am sending a copy of the relevant Gazette article to my hon. Friend.