HC Deb 02 April 1985 vol 76 c539W
Mr. Ron Davies

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will produce a table showing the average gross weekly earnings for full-time male employees for each region of the United Kingdom from 1980 to date; and if he will express such figures as a percentage of the national average.

Mr. Peter Bottomley

Details of the average gross weekly earnings of full-time adult male employees working a full week in each region of Great Britain and for Great Britain as a whole (in relation to which each region can he expressed as a percentage) are published in Table 110 of the reports of the "New Earnings Survey" for 1980 to 1984 inclusive. Copies are in the Library.

Mr. Ron Davies

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list, for each of the six categories of employment with the lowest average wages and the six with the highest, as defined in the "New Earnings Survey," the rate, expressed in percentage terms, at which those wages increased, year-on-year, for each year since 1979 to date; and what has been their total increase in that period.

Mr. Peter Bottomley

Information on the level of average weekly earnings and on annual changes for male and female employees in various categories such as negotiating group, occupation, industry, age, region and so on is published in the reports of the annual "New Earnings Survey". Copies of these reports for the years 1979 to 1984 inclusive are in the Library.