Top-up Loans

HC Deb 13 June 1989 vol 154 c345W

Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in theOfficial Report the data used to construct chart 7 on page 11 of "Top-up Loans for Students" (Cm. 520).

Mr. Jackson

The data underlying the chart were as follows:

Average gross annual earnings of working males aged 30–39
Year	Earnings of male graduates	Earnings of all working males
	£	£
1979	7,909	5,728
1980	9,119	6,931
1981	10,876	7,867
1982	11,822	8,264
1983	13,374	9,220
1984	14,589	9,814
1985	13,864	10,575

Source: General Household Surveys 1979–1985.