HC Deb 10 May 1984 vol 59 cc457-8W
Mr. Skinner

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what percentage of women workers earned less than £90 per week in 1979 compared to the most recently available figure.

Mr. Peter Morrison

Details for April 1979 and April 1983, the most recent available date, relating to the proportion of full-time adult women employees working a full week with gross weekly earnings below £90 are published in table 1 of the reports of the New Earnings Survey, Part A, 1979 and 1983, copies of which are in the Library.