HC Deb 27 February 1992 vol 204 cc581-3W
Mr. Caborn

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many full-time males, part-time males, full-time females and part-time females in employment in the City of York currently earn less than £3.40 per hour.

Mr. Forth

The information from the "1991 New Earnings Survey" closest to that requested is given in the following table.

Employees on adult rates whose pay was unaffected by absence: Percentage whose gross hourly earnings (excluding overtime) were less than £3.40.

North Yorkshire April 1991
Full-time males 9.4
Part-time males n/a
Full-time females 18.3
Part-time females 45.5

Mr. Caborn

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many jobs were on offer in jobcentres in York in each month since January 1990.

Mr. Jackson

The information requested can be obtained from the NOMIS database in the Library.

Mr. Caborn

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will state the total number of men and women in employment, both full and part-time, in the City of York, and the number in each of these categories who currently earn (a) more than £21,060 per annum, (b) more than £35,000 per annum, (c) more than £40,000 per annum and (d) more than £50,000 per annum.

Mr. Forth

The latest available information about employment in local areas is from the 1989 census of employment and relates to employees only. The numbers of employees in employment in the York local authority district at September 1989 were as follows:

Thousands
Males
Full time 25.5
Part time 2.4
Females
Full time 15.6
Part time 15.0

Information on the percentages of employees earning more than certain amounts per week is available from the "1991 New Earnings Survey". Figures are available only at county level and for full-time employees. They are given in the following table, for the available levels of weekly earnings which correspond most closely to the annual amounts specified in the question.

Full.time employees on adult rates whose pay was unaffected by absence:
Percentage with gross weekly earnings above the following amounts
North Yorkshire April 1991
£ 390 £ 600 £ 700 £ 900
Men 16.0 2.6 1.2 0.4
Women 4.1 0.6 0.2 0.2

Mr. Caborn

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table showing the number of full-time employees in employment in the City of York in 1979 and in each year since(a) in all manufacturing jobs and (b) in each of the following industrial groups (i) railways, (ii) cocoa, chocolate and sugar confectionery, (iii) manufacturing of railway and tramway vehicles, (iv) printing and publishing, (v) scheduled road passenger transport, (vi) road haulage, (vii) postal services and (viii) telecommunications.

Mr. Jackson

Information for employees in employment according to industry and by district is available only from the censuses of employment for 1981, 1984, 1987 and 1989. This can be obtained, subject to the confidentially restrictions of the Statistics of Trade Act 1947, from the NOM IS database in the Library.

Mr. Caborn

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table showing the average gross weekly earnings of full-time males, full-time females and part-time females on adult rates in(a) the City of York, (b) north Yorkshire, (c) England, (d) Greater London and (e) the City of Canterbury in 1979 and each year since then.

Mr. Forth

The available information is published in tables 110 and 113 of part E and table 180 of part F of the "New Earnings Survey" reports for each year since 1979, except for that shown in the following table. Information is not available for the cities of York or Canterbury.

Average gross weekly earnings of part time women employees on adult rates whose pay was unaffected by absence
£ per week April each year
County 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991
North Yorkshire 23.5 29.9 34.7 37.9 39.9 42.8 44.1 47.8 52.6 54.1 62.8 68.2 77.2
Kent 26.8 32.8 40.0 42.0 47.4 49.7 56.4 59.9 61.7 67.8 69.6 79.7 89.8

Source: New Earnings Survey.

Note: It is estimated that around one fifth of part time women employees were not covered by the survey because their gross weekly earnings were below the PAYE threshold.

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