§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) if he will publish a table showing the increase in, respectively, the average real earnings of full-time adult male and female manual workers in manufacturing industry, whose pay was not affected by sickness, in the 12 years to April compared to full-time male and female manual employees (i) in the public sector and (ii) not in the public sector;
(2) whether he will publish a table showing the increase in the average real earnings of full-time adult male manual workers in manufacturing industry, whose pay was not affected by sickness, in the 12 years to April 1991 relative to full-time male adult manual workers in (i) the public sector other than the nationalised industries, (ii) the nationalised industries and (iii) the private sector;
(3) whether he will publish a table showing the increase in the average real earnings of full-time adult female manual workers in manufacturing industry, whose pay 143W was not affected by sickness, in the 12 years to April 1991 relative to full-time adult female manual workers in (i) the public sector other than the nationalised industries, (ii) the nationalised industries and (iii) the private sector;
(4) if he will publish a table showing the increase in, respectively, the average real earnings of full-time adult male and female manual workers in manufacturing industry, whose pay was not affected by sickness, in the 12 years to April compared to full-time adult male and female non-manual employees in (i) the public sector and (ii) not in the public sector;
(5) whether he will publish a table showing the increase in the average real earnings of full-time adult female manual workers in manufacturing industry, whose pay was not affected by sickness, in the 12 years to April and the same data for full-time adult female non-manual workers in (a) manufacturing, (b) the public sector other than the nationalised industries, (c) the nationalised industries and (d) the private sector;
(6) if he will publish a table showing the increase in the average real earnings of full-time adult male and female manual workers in manufacturing industry whose pay was not affected by sickness, in the 12 years to April compared to full-time adult male and female non-manual employees in (i) the public sector and (ii) not in the public sector;
(7) whether he will publish a table showing the increase in the average real earnings of full-time adult male manual workers in manufacturing industry, whose pay was not affected by sickness, in the 12 years to April 1991 relative to full-time adult male non-manual workers in (a) manufacturing, (b) the public sector other than the nationalised industries, (c) the nationalised industries and(d) the private sector.
Mr. JacksonInformation on the average gross earnings of manual and non-manual male and female employees by sector and of manual employees in manufacturing can be found in tables 1, 4 and 6 of part A of the new earnings survey reports from 1979 onwards, apart from those in the "Public Sector other than the nationalised industries" for 1979 which are given in the table below.
Information on the retail prices index (all items) to convert 1979 figures to 1991 prices is published in table 6.4 of the latest Employment Gazette for April 1991, and in table 26 of the annual supplement to Economic Trends for April of earlier years.
Copies of the publications are available in the Library.
Average gross weekly earnings of full-time adult employees whose pay was not affected by absence. Public sector other than public corporations April 1979 £ Manual women 52.9 Manual men 79.5 Non-manual women 74.5 Non-manual men 111.0