§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish in theOfficial Report a table showing the increase in real weekly earnings of full-time adult male manual workers in manufacturing industry in the decade ending April 1989, and the best estimate he can make for non-manuals employed in the private sector; and if he will provide similar figures for females.
§ Mr. NichollsI have been asked to reply.
I refer the hon. Member to my reply of 13 December 1989 (Official Report, columns 658–59) for the figures for male and female manual employees in manufacturing. The figures for male and female non-manuals in the private sector are 43 per cent. and 48 per cent. respectively.