§ Mr. Nicholas BennettTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what information he has as to average male weekly earnings in each Welsh district or travel-to-work area.
§ Mr. Peter WalkerRecent information is available only for counties and sub-divisions from the Employment Department's new earnings survey which gives the following information for April 1988:
Average male gross weekly earnings1 £ Clwyd 222.0 Clwyd West2 196.5 Clwyd East3 231.7 Dyfed (excluding Llanelli) 200.4 Gwent 218.8 Gwynedd 204.0 Mid Glamorgan 221.5 Powys 191.2 South Glamorgan 224.9 West Glamorgan (including Llanelli) 220.7 Wales 217.8 1 Full-time males on adult rates, whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence. 2 Colwyn, Glyndwr and Rhuddlan districts. 3 Alyn and Deeside, Delyn and Wrexham Maelor. Figures for April 1989 are to be published on Thursday 23 November 1989.