HC Deb 04 February 1981 vol 998 cc136-7W
Mr. Normanton

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what, at the latest available date, is the average annual increase in wages and salaries in each travel-to-work area within the county of Cheshire.

Mr. Peter Morrison

Information on wages and salaries for individual travel-to-work areas is not available. For adults in full-time employment in establishments within Cheshire the average increase in gross weekly earnings—where earnings were not affected by absence—-between April 1979 and April 1980 shown by the new earnings survey was 23.7 per cent, for men and 24.0 per cent, for women.