HC Deb 31 October 1989 vol 159 c175W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will publish in theOfficial Report a table showing (a) the average earnings of full-time adult male manual workers in the railway industry and (b) the average of full-time adult male non-manual workers at the latest available date together with the corresponding figures for the United Kingdom for 1959 and 1972 and the information he has on comparable figures for 1972 and the latest available date in France and West Germany.

Mr. Nicholls

The available information is provided in the table. Comparable figures for France and West Germany are not readily available.

Average gross hourly earnings of full-time adult male employees in the United Kingdom; pay not affected by absence, April of each year
1972 £ 1988 £
(a) Manual employees in the railway industry 0.67 4.25
(b) All non-manual employees 1.10 7.40

Sources: New Earnings Surveys in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.