§ Mr. Lesterasked the Paymaster General if he will provide a breakdown of family expenditure on items such as food, housing costs and so on distinguishing between manual and non-manual households.
§ Mr. LeeThe information available from the family expenditure survey 1985 is as follows:
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Average weekly household expenditure (£) Manual households £
Non-manual households £
Housing: (gross) 27.75 37.79 (net) 26.41 37.40 Fuel, light and power 10.11 11.19 Food 38.28 40.08 Alcoholic drink 10.72 10.16 Tobacco 6.47 3.62 Clothing and footwear 14.03 17.52 Durable household goods 13.67 17.52 Other goods 13.84 18.11
Manual households Non-manual households £ £ Transport and vehicles 28.15 38.89 Services 18.89 31.03 Miscellaneous 0.72 1.27 All expenditure groups 181.29 226.79 Number of households in the 1985 survey 2,246 2,002 Notes:
- (1) Manual households are here defined as those households in which the head of household is an employee or self-employed in a manual occupation.
- (2) Non-manual households arc here defined as those households in which the head of household is an employee or self-employed in a non-manual occupation, or a member of HM forces.
- (3) Households in which the head of household was retired or unoccupied (2,764 in the 1985 survey) are excluded from this table. Unoccupied heads of household include school leavers who have never worked and those unemployed for more than 12 months.