HC Deb 15 May 1987 vol 116 cc442-4W
Mr. Michael McNair-Wilson

asked the Paymaster General what is the average industrial wage.

Mr. Lee

The latest available information on the average gross weekly earnings of full-time adult employees

Mr. Trippier

We have no means of knowing the number of new jobs created in the economy.

However, between June 1979 and December 1986 the annual net changes in the size of the employed labour force in Great Britain for each of the categories specified were as follows:

in manufacturing industries relates to April 1986, and is published in table 5.6 of "Labour Market Data" in the November 1986 issue of Employment Gazette, a copy of which is available in the Library.