HC Deb 27 May 1982 vol 24 c388W
Mr. Hardy

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many of those employed in the National Health Service whose salaries are determined by Whitley council arrangements will receive gross salary increases of less than £5 per week.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke

In discussions in the National Health Service Whitley councils, offers have been made including some of variable increases in basic rates of pay. These offers are open to negotiation within the total sum available. Until negotiations resume and settlements are reached, it is not possible for anyone to assess the effect on individual earnings.

Mr. Hardy

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many full-time workers in the National Health Service receive salaries which are below half the level of average earnings.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke

A precise figure is not available centrally and could not be obtained without disproportionate expense.

The following is a broad comparison of the weekly earnings in 1981–82 of major National Health Service nonmedical staff groups with those of workers generally:

Mr. Rooker

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make a statement showing how self-employed persons were treated in respect of the Department's estimates of the take-up of family income supplement currently in use and those in use before the revised estimate announced on 10 June 1981, Official Report, c. 133–34.

Mr. Newton

I do not think that I can usefully enlarge on the note on the estimate derived from the family finances survey, to which I have referred in earlier replies to the hon. Member—particularly paragraphs B6 to B9—appendix B—of the note, which dealt with the self-employed. Appendix C referred to previous estimates, from which the self-employed were also excluded.