§ Mr. Ian Stewartasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish, in similar terms to the written answer given by the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Mr. Golding), Official Report, 30 January, column 402, the average gross weekly earnings of all industries and services for the years 1970 to the latest available date, and the figures for (a) all male and female local authority manual workers in England and Wales and (b) male and female ancillary staff in the National Health Service for the same period.
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§ Mr. GoldingThe following new earnings survey estimates for April 1970 to 1974 correspond to those for April 1975
AVERAGE GROSS WEEKLY EARNINGS OF FULL-TIME MEN AND WOMEN. WHOSE PAY FOR THE SURVEY PAY-PERIOD WAS NOT AFFECTED BY ABSENCE April 1970 April 1971 April 1972 April 1973 April 1974 £ £ £ £ £ Men, aged 21 and over— All industries and Services all occupations … 30.00 32.90 36.70 41.90 47.70 non-manual occupations … 35.80 39.90 43.50 48.10 54.40 manual occupations … 26.80 29.40 32.80 38.10 43.60 "Local Authority" … 21.10* 24.30 26.60 31.20 35.50 "Health Service" … 22.00‡ 25.70‡ 27.80‡ 29.00† 37.10† WOMEN, aged 18 and over— All industries and services: all occupations … 16.30 18.30 20.50 23.10 26.90 non-manual occupations … 17.80 19.80 22.20 24.70 28.60 manual occupations … 13.40 15.30 17.10 19.70 23.60 "Local Authority" … 12.00 14.10 16.50 19.60 23.30 "Health service" … 13.40 16.00 18.30 19.60 27.10 *Includes county council roadmen, who were separately identified in the 1970 survey. †Recalculated figure, excluding ambulancemen. ‡This figure includes ambulancemen and so as not completely comparable with the estimates for 1973 onwards.