§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a table showing the number of adult male full-time civil servants and the estimated number earning less than (i) half and (ii) two-thirds of the median hourly earnings of all full-time adult male workers on full-time rates.
§ Mrs. Gillian ShephardThere were about 251,000 adult male full-time non-industrial civil servants on 1 April 1991, and about 49,000 adult male full-time industrial civil servants on 1 January 1991.
My Department does not collect information on actual earnings of individual civil servants. The available information closest to that requested, on the distribution of earnings of civil servants, is published in the New Earnings Survey 1990 part A table 1 and part B tables 36 and 52. A copy of these reports is in the Library.