§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment, further to his letter of 11 January to the hon. Member for Great Grimsby replying further to his holding answer of 19 December,Official Report, 20 December, column 235, whether he will publish in the Official Report a table providing the same information for 1972–79 together with his best estimate of the numbers employed in 1979 in (i) each of the specified categories, (ii) manufacturing in the public sector and (iii) the private sector other than manufacturing; and if he will add an estimate of the increase in average earnings each year of manuals and non-manuals in the private sector less manufacturing based on the weighted average employment figures in the respective sectors.
§ Mr. NichollsEstimates of the increases in earnings for each year are provided in the table. Estimates of the numbers in employment for the categories requested are not available except for non-manual male employees in manufacturing, of which there were 1,377,000 employees in October 1979. The calculation requested in the final part of the question would not be meaningful for the reasons stated in my letter to the hon. Member.
The increase to April 1989 in the median level of gross weekly earnings of full-time adult manual male employees in the manufacture of motor vehicles and parts (SIC 35) was 511 per cent. from April 1972 and 148 per cent. from April 1979. Information on the median level of earnings for all full-time adult employees in the whole economy less manufacturing is not available.
The increase in output per head for SIC 35 between the second quarter of 1979 and the third quarter of 1989 was 49 per cent. Data on output per head for SIC 35 prior to 1978 are not available. The increase in output per head for the whole economy less manufacturing between 1972 and the third quarter of 1989 cannot be provided without incurring disproportionate cost. The increase between the second quarter of 1979 and the third quarter of 1989 was 12 per cent.