§ Mr. Robin CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what was the income of pensioners with no other source of income than state benefits as a proportion of the average earnings of all male workers in each year since 1974.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe information is as follows:
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Average gross income of pensioners with no other source of income than state benefits as a proportion of the average earnings of all
male workers
Year 1974 27 1975 27 1976 27 1977 29 1978 29 1979 28 1980 28 1981 29 1982 30 1983 30 1970. For 1980 onwards, labour figures for holdings classified as specialist or mainly dairying are given in the table, but even on these specialist holdings there are other activities to which some of this labour will be directed. About 15 per cent. of dairy cows are on non-specialist holdings, but it is not possible to estimate how much of the labour on these is attributable to the dairy enterprise.
Year 1984 31 1985 30 1986 29 Notes:
1. Pensioner incomes are from the family expenditure survey.
2. Earnings data are from the new earnings survey.
The average gross income of this group of pensioners as a proportion of all manual workers' earnings was 32 per cent. in 1974, 33 per cent. in 1979, increasing to 37 per cent. in 1986.