§ Mr. Bob Dunnasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list in the Official Report those industries in which wage settlements in the last 12 months have been below 15 per cent; and if he will show against each item the percentage settlement.
§ Mr. Peter Morrison[pursuant to his reply, 10 April 1981, c. 364]: As there is no obligation for details of pay settlements to be notified to my Department, comprehensive statistics are not available. However, some information is regularly compiled and published on changes in basic wage rates or minimum entitlements for manual workers where these are the outcome of centrally determined arrangements, usually national collective agreements or statutory wages orders.
The following table lists those agreements which are incorporated in the published index of basic wage rates and had increases in basic weekly rates of less than 15 per cent. becoming operative in the period since April 1980.
Increases in basic rates do not necessarily imply an equivalent increase in earnings arising from an agreement. It should be emphasised that these figures do not cover non-manual agreements. Also, where pay settlements are made at local level, the increases may not be the same as those included in national agreements.
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Standard Industrial Classification Industry Pay determination body or parties to agreement establishing minimum rates included in wage rates index Operative date of latest agreement* Percentage increase in minimum rate║ Sawmilling National Sawmilling Association and trade unions 1 January 1981 8.3 Furniture manufacture Federated Association and trade unions January 1981 9.4 XXI Water supply services National Joint Industrial Council 7 December 1980 9.4 XXII Municipal bus services National Joint Industrial Council 1 January 1981 7.5 XXVI Cinema theatres Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association and trade unions 4 January 1981 9.0 Licensed non-residential establishments Wages Council (statutory order) 15 January 1981 14.0 Boot and shoe repairing Wages Council (statutory order) 12 February 1981 8.8 XXVII Local authority services National Joint Councils (Manual Workers) for England and Wales and Scotland 4 November 1980 8.4 * First pay period in month unless otherwise stated. † Ten-month settlement. ‡ Implementation with company settlements on or after this date. ║ Based on the lowest minimum rate for adult men. Increases in minimum rates for other categories of worker covered by the agreement may differ. Further details are given in "Changes in Rates of Wages and Hours of Work", published monthly by Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Other changes resulting from the agreement (in overtime rates, bonus arrangements) will not be reflected in these figures.