HC Deb 14 July 1988 vol 137 c343W
Mr. Barry Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the percentage of working men in Wales who earned less than £100 per week in the year 1987–88; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Peter Walker

Latest available data for Wales from the new earnings survey, April 1987 show that 6.4 per cent. of full-time male employees on adult rates (whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence) earned less than £100 per week.