§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in theOfficial Report a table showing for the average, median, quartile and decile full-time adult male manual and non-manual workers the percentage increase in real earnings, including overtime, between April 1979 and April 1989 together with the increase in the real value of sterling against the deutschmark, the dollar and the yen between the fourth quarter of 1976 and the first quarter of 1979 and between that quarter and the second quarter of 1988.
§ Mr. NichollsThe increases in real earnings are provided in the table:
Full-time adult males in Great Britain Percentage increase Manuals Non-manuals All Lowest decile 4 17 10 Lower quartile 8 26 14 Median 11 33 21 Higher quartile 14 37 29 Highest decile 17 46 38 Average earnings 13 38 28 Notes:
The increases shown do not relate to the same individuals at the different dates.
Source: New Earnings Survey data deflated by the RPI (all items).
There is no single definition of real exchange rates and bilateral real exchange rates are not published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) nor by OECD. Data on bilateral nominal exchange rates and various price indices for the relevant countries are published by the IMF in "International Financial Statistics".