§ Mr. McTaggartasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the Official Report (a) the latest estimates of the number of part-time female and male workers and (b) the estimated proportion of part-time male workers in Scotland being paid less than (i) £3 an hour and (ii) £2 an hour in April 1985.
§ Mr. Allan StewartThere were estimated to be 410,000 part-time female employees in employment in December 1985. No comparable estimates are made for part-time male employees, and the latest estimate is 60,000 at the census of employment in September 1981. No detailed information is available on the earnings of part-time male employees.
§ Mr. McTaggartasked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will publish (a) a table showing the proportion of full-time employees in Scotland who, in the New Earnings Survey 1985, are paid less than £50, £60, £70, £80, £90, £100, £110 and £120 a week, respectively, when overtime earnings are included and (b) a table showing the proportion of full-time employees in the same area who are paid less than £110 and £120 when overtime earnings are excluded, for all males and females, and subdivided into non-manual and manual males and females.
§ Mr. Allan StewartThe information requested is given in the tables.
(a) Percentage of employees with earnings, including overtime, less than: £ per cent. 50 0.2 60 0.9 70 2.9 80 7.1 90 12.8 100 19.6 110 26.8 120 34.4
(b) Percentage of employees with earnings, excluding overtime, less than: £110 £120 Males All 20.7 28.6 Manual 28.9 40.0 Non-manual 9.7 13.1 Females All 54.5 65.8 Manual 76.7 86.3 Non-manual 47.2 59.0 The information in both tables relates to full-time employees on adult rates in April 1985, whose pay was not affected by absence during the survey pay period.