§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will publish in theOfficial Report a table showing for the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy the latest figures, in terms of national currency, showing average earnings of adult male workers in the steel, motor car and mechanical engineering industries and of adult female workers in the textile and clothing industries.
§ Mr. NichollsThe latest available figures are to be found in the Eurostat publication "Earnings in Industries and Services" No. 2 1988, a copy of which is available in the Library of the House.
§ Mr. MeacherTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in theOfficial Report the number and percentage of employees earning less than £2.80 per hour giving (a) the total, (b) male, in total and full and part-time, (c) female, in total and full and part-time, (d) full-time, in total and male and female and (e) part-time, in total and male and female for each region and England, Scotland, Wales and Great Britain for the latest available year.
§ Mr. LeeThe available information is published in part E table 115 and part F table 175 of the 1988 new earnings survey report, for full-time employees and female part-time employees respectively. A copy of the report is in the Library. Information on part-time male employees is available only for Great Britain: 54.5 per cent. of part-time male employees in the 1988 new earnings survey sample earned less than £2.80 per hour.
§ Mr. MeacherTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the smallest geographical unit for which information on the number and percentage of employees earning less than £2.80 per hour is available.
§ Mr. LeeInformation on the distribution of earnings of employees in the new earnings survey sample is available for the standards regions of England plus Scotland and Wales, for full-time employees and part-time female employees. Equivalent information on part-time male employees is available only for Great Britain as a whole.