§ Mr. CryerTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in theOfficial Report a table showing the proportion of full-time employees earning less that (i) £130 a week and (ii) £140 a week, when overtime earnings are excluded, for men and women separately, in each county in England and in each London borough, as recorded by the 1987 new earnings survey.
§ Mr. LeeThe available information is as follows:
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Proportion of full-time employees earning less than £130 and £140 per week excluding overtime payments. Employees on adult rates whose pay was not affected by absence; April 1987. per cent. Counties of England by standard region Full-time Men Full-time Women £130 £140 £130 £140 Bedfordshire 17.4 23.0 54.4 61.7 Berkshire 14.4 19.5 40.1 49.1 Buckinghamshire 18.0 23.6 41.5 50.2 East Sussex 29.6 37.2 58.4 64.2 Essex 19.3 24.7 56.1 63.0 Hampshire 20.6 27.3 49.3 57.3 Hertfordshire 13.9 18.1 42.0 50.8 Isle of Wight 31.9 40.4 .. .. Kent 24.1 30.4 56.7 63.0 Oxfordshire 20.3 26.1 46.8 57.2 Surrey 18.3 23.81 41.2 51.3 West Sussex 21.5 27.0 47.0 55.7 Cambridgeshire 21.0 27.6 54.1 62.1 Norfolk 27.8 36.0 60.0 67.0 Suffolk 26.9 33.3 55.8 62.1 Avon 19.5 26.1 55.9 64.8 Cornwall 35.6 44.0 63.4 73.1 Devon 33.2 41.4 60.0 65.8 Dorset 25.8 33.8 59.6 66.1 Gloucestershire 20.5 27.8 55.7 66.8 Somerset 27.2 34.7 58.5 64.4 Wiltshire 21.1 28.5 58.5 67.7 West Midlands MC 20.1 26.0 57.4 65.4 Hereford and Worcester 29.6 35.9 61.2 67.8 Shropshire 34.6 44.5 66.2 73.7 Staffordshire 27.4 34.7 59.3 65.7 Warwickshire 19.3 25.1 63.3 68.9 Derbyshire 21.7 30.4 63.8 70.6 Leicestershire 25.3 33.4 61.0 69.9 Lincolnshire 35.6 43.2 69.3 74.2 Northamptonshire 23.4 30.0 61.2 70.0 Nottinghamshire 25.0 31.6 58.0 66.9 South Yorkshire MC 22.1 27.6 60.7 68.0 West Yorkshire MC 26.0 32.8 57.7 65.4 Humberside 28.1 34.1 61.0 69.9 North Yorkshire 34.4 41.9 60.9 69.4 Greater Manchester MC 23.0 29.7 56.8 63.5 Merseyside MC 21.9 28.1 53.0 63.5 Cheshire 18.0 24.5 55.8 62.2 Lancashire 26.9 34.8 62.6 73.7 Tyne and Wear MC 20.9 29.8 53.7 64.6 Cleveland 18.1 24.9 57.0 63.4 Cumbria 19.9 25.1 56.2 67.3 Durham 23.4 30.5 58.0 69.0 Northumberland 29.8 36.3 67.2 74.3
London boroughs Full-time men Full-time women £130 £140 £130 £140 Barking 9.5 13.1 .. .. Barnet 11.9 17.4 33.0 42.9 Bexley 14.2 16.5 42.1 48.6 Brent 13.0 17.9 43.0 51.0 Bromley .. .. 37.3 44.3 Camden 8.5 12.4 16.4 22.8 Croydon 14.0 18.8 30.9 40.9 Ealing 11.1 16.7 42.9 48.0 Enfield 13.2 21.1 36.0 50.8 Greenwich 13.7 18.3 39.2 45.6 Hackney .. .. 23.4 29.7 Hammersmith 8.8 12.6 24.4 29.4 Haringey 13.2 19.8 32.2 37.3 Harrow 8.9 11.7 .. .. Havering 14.5 20.1 40.7 44.4 Hillingdon 11.8 16.8 39.8 51.2 Hounslow 7.3 10.6 26.2 32.5 Islington 9.6 14.0 21.3 30.5 Kensington and Chelsea 17.0 20.8 22.2 27.8 Kingston-upon-Thames 16.4 21.0 32.0 44.8 Lambeth 8.6 11.7 21.5 22.9 Lewisham 18.0 25.8 .. .. Merton 16.0 20.5 .. .. Newham 13.9 19.0 .. .. Redbridge 12.0 19.2 30.8 38.3 Richmond-upon-Thames 10.2 14.1 30.1 37.9 Southwark 10.4 14.5 21.5 27.4 Sutton .. .. 31.2 42.7 Tower Hamlets 12.5 17.4 26.2 30.5 Waltham Forest 18.1 21.5 29.0 36.0 Wandsworth 13.5 16.6 30.3 37.1 City of London 4.5 6.7 12.0 15.2 City of Westminster 9.3 12.8 13.8 20.5 .. denotes not available. Source: New Earnings Survey 1987.