§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will publish in the Official Report a further breakdown into manufacturing and non-manufacturing to that given in his answer of 15 November,Official Report, column 279, and divide the resultant figures by the increase in productivity in, respectively, the manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors; whether he will provide the corresponding figures for full-time females; and whether he will include the numbers represented by each category.
§ Mr. NichollsI refer the hon. Member to the further breakdown of increases in real earnings provided in my reply of 13 December 1989 (Official Report, columns 658–59). The available estimates of productivity are published in table 1.8 of the Employment Gazette. The available figures of the numbers represented by each category were published in my reply of 8 December 1989 (Official Report, column 426).
§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment, further to his written reply of 11 December to the hon. Member for Great Grimsby,Official Report, columns 467–68, with regard to the increase in weekly and hourly earnings of certain workers, whether he will publish a table giving corresponding figures for pay increases since 1979 for full-time adult male employees employed in manual work in (a) the public sector and (b) elsewhere and for non-manual workers employed in (i) the public sector, (ii) manufacturing and (iii) elsewhere.
§ Mr. Nicholls[holding answer 19 December 1989]: I shall write to the hon. Member with the information requested.