§ Mr. Leightonasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the average wage of the male adult worker in Great Britain; and how this compares with the other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries.
§ Mr. AlisonThe latest figures of average weekly earnings of full-time adult male employees in Great Britain, relating to April 1982, have been published in table 1 of the report on the new earnings survey 1982, a copy of which is available in the Library.
Comparable figures for all other OECD countries are not available, but figures relating to the average hourly earnings of manual workers in production industries in October 1981 for the countries of the European Community have been published in the Eurostat Statistical Bulletin on Wages and Salaries—6–1982, published November 1982—a copy of which is available in the Library.