HC Deb 04 March 1985 vol 74 cc358-9W
Mr. McTaggart

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what were the average wages paid to (a) manual workers and (b) non-manual workers in (i) Scotland and (ii) England and Wales in each of the past five years for which figures are available.

Mr. Peter Bottomley

Information on the average gross weekly earnings of full-time adult employees working a full week, distinguishing males and females, and manual and non-manual employees, in Scotland and in England and Wales are published in tables 108, 109, 111 and 112 of part E of the annual reports on the new earnings survey between 1979 and 1984, copies of which are in the Library.