HC Deb 18 May 1978 vol 950 cc241-2W
Mr. Henderson

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the average income per household at the latest available date on a regional basis throughout Scotland.

Nursery Primary Secondary Special Total
Argyll and Bute 6 1 7
Ayr 26 5 31
Dunbarton 29 2 31
Glasgow 109 26 135
Lanark 68 20 88
Renfrew 6 54 24 4 88
Total 6 292 78 4 380

The regional council has also appointed 9 additional teachers—33 primary and 46 secondary—to schools in Maryhill and

Mr. Gregor MacKenzie

The estimated average weekly income per household for Scotland in 1976, the latest year for which information is available, was £80.35. This information is not available for regions within Scotland, but average weekly earnings of full-time manual and non-manual workers for each region in Scotland in April 1977 were as follows:

Full-time workers whose pay was not affected by absence
Local Government Region Men (21 and over) Women (18 and over)
£ £
Borders N.A. N.A.
Central 81.7 45.9
Dumfries and Galloway 68.7 N.A.
Fife 75.9 49.5
Grampian 81.0 51.1
Highland 78.3 N.A.
Lothian 78.2 47.4
Strathclyde 79.4 49.3
Tayside 72.6 49.1
Islands N.A. N.A.
Scotland 78.3 48.9
Source: Department of Employment New Earnings Survey April 1977, as published in Scottish Economic Bulletin No. 14.
The estimates are subject to sampling errors.
N.A.=Not available.