§ Mr. Frank FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will update the answer given to the hon. Member for Birkenhead on the numbers of men and women covered by collective agreements for each year74W since 1982, and the proportion of men and women workers represented by these numbers at 27 July, Official Report, columns 320–21.
§ Mr. LeeIt is still the case that information is available on a regular basis only in respect of manual employees covered by national collective agreements and statutory wages orders. The information is readily available only for every second year and is as follows:
Estimated numbers covered Million 1983 7.8 1985 7.3 1987 6.6 Source: Time Rates of Wages and Hours of Work.
Some figures on the relative numbers of employees covered by various types of collective agreement—national, district, company and so on—or by no collective agreement, covering both manual and non-manual employees and distinguishing males and females, were obtained in the new earnings survey for 1985 and were published in part F (tables 187 to 194) of the report, a copy of which is in the Library.