§ 46. Mr. Colvinasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people in Great Britain today are paid in cash and on less than a monthly basis.
§ Mr. WaddingtonThe Government do not collect statistics on how frequently or by what means wages are paid. However, information collected by the Inter-Bank Research Organisation in 1979 and published in the recent CPRS report "Cashless Pay—alternatives to cash in payment of wages" is as follows:86W
Methods by which the wages of British employees were paid in 1979 Manual Non-manual All employees per cent. per cent. per cent. Cash weekly in cash 77 78 34 35 53 54 monthly in cash 1 1 1 Non-cash weekly by bank credit 7 21 6 65 6 45 weekly by cheque 6 4 5 monthly by bank credit 5 43 25 monthly by cheque 3 12 9 TOTAL 100 100 100 Source: IBRO.
Note: The totals include very small numbers of staff paid by transfer into accounts other than bank accounts (notably building society accounts), and therefore not included in the itemised figures.