Earnings (Hansard, 10 July 1990)

§ Mr. Livsey
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish average gross weekly earnings for(a) full-time adult men, (b) full-time adult women and (c) all adults in Powys for (i) 1987, (ii) 1988 and (iii) 1989.

§ Mr. David Hunt
The average gross weekly earnings of full-time males in Powys in 1988 was £191.20. No separate data is available for males and females in the other years requested due to the small sample sizes for Powys used in the new earnings survey. The average gross weekly earnings of all adults in full-time employment in Powys in 1988 and 1989 were £182.20 and £206.20 respectively: figures for 1987 are not available.

§ Mr. Livsey
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish average taxable weekly earnings for full-time adult(a) women and (b) men in Powys for (1) 1987, (2) 1988 and (3) 1989.

§ Mr. David Hunt
Estimates of taxable income at county level are not presently available.

§ Mr. Livsey
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish average(a) gross weekly earnings for full-time adult men working in manual occupations and (b) disposable weekly earnings for adult men, in Powys for (1) 1987, (2) 1988 and (3) 1989.

§ Mr. David Hunt
Reliable estimates or average gross weekly earnings for full-time adult men working in manual occupations in Powys are not available from the new earnings survey.
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In 1988 the average disposable weekly earnings for adult men in full-time employment in Powys was £160.50, calculated on the basis set out in table 48 of "Welsh Economic Trends", No. 11, 1987. There are no reliable figures available using this definition for 1987 or 1989. Estimates for all full-time men are not available.