HC Deb 30 June 1988 vol 136 cc317-8W
Mr. Matthew Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what percentage of full-time working women in Cornwall receive less than £100 a week; and what is the figure for the United Kingdom as a whole.

Mr. Lee

Information on the distribution of earnings from the new earnings survey sample indicates that, in April 1987, some 37 per cent. of full-time female employees in Cornwall on adult rates, whose gross earnings were not affected by absence, earned less than £100 per week. The equivalent figure for the United Kingdom as a whole is 22 per cent.

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