§ Mrs. Wiseasked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the latest figures for average earnings for (a) all women, (b) women in manual occupations and (c) women in non-manual occupations, expressed as (i) mean average, (ii) median and (iii) mode; and what are the comparative figures for men.
§ Mr. LeeThe latest date for which information is available is April 1986. Table 1 in part A of the report on the new earnings survey 1986 gives information on the gross weekly mean and median earnings of full-time adult employees in Great Britain. Information on the distribution of weekly earnings from which the modal86W ranges can be determined is published in table 29 of part B of the new earnings survey 1986. Copies of both these reports are available in the Library.