§ Mr. Fieldasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report his estimate of the proportion of part-time workers excluded from the coverage of the new earnings survey because their income is below the pay-as-you-earn threshold, showing this in information separately for (a) young males, (b) young females, (c) adult males and (d) adult females.
§ Mr. Jim Lester[pursuant to his reply, 20 May 1980, c.9–11]: About one third of part-time workers are estimated to be omitted from the coverage of the new earnings survey, because their earnings fell below the deduction card limits for tax and national insurance proposes. A precise analysis by age and sex is not
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