§ Mr. Fieldasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the value of the lowest decile of all earnings expressed as a percentage of average earnings, both male and female earnings combined, for each of the last 10 years.
§ Mr. AlisonThe available information in respect of full-tithe male employees aged 21 and over and full-time female employees aged 18 and over is as follows:
April Lowest decile* of gross weekly earnings as a percentage of average gross weekly earnings 1973 49 1974 51 1975 54 1976 55 1977 56 1978 55 1979 55 1980 54 1981 54 1982 53 Source: New Earnings Survey. * The figure below which the 10 per cent. of employees with the lowest gross weekly earnings lie.
§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is his latest estimate of the average industrial weekly earnings for (a) a male manual worker over 21 years old, (b) a female manual worker over 21 years old, (c) a male non-manual worker aged over 21 years and (d) a female non-manual worker aged over 21 years.
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§ Mr. AlisonThe latest estimates, which relate to April 1982, are those published in tables 10 and 11 of part A of the report on the new earnings survey 1982, a copy of which is in the Library.