Low Pay (Hansard, 3 March 1992)

§ Mr. Forth

The percentages requested, which are available from the 1991 new earnings survey, are given in the following table.

It is broadly estimated, from the new earnings survey and other sources, that around 0.4 million employees in Scotland earned less than £3.40 per hour in April 1991, of whom two thirds were women and one half were part-timers.

Employees on adult rates whose pay was unaffected by absence: Percentage with hourly earnings (excluding overtime) below £3.40 April 1991
	Women	Men	All
Full-time
Borders	28.2	¹—	¹—
Central	23.5	6.0	12.2
Dumfries and Galloway	¹—	7.6	13.7
Fife	22.3	9.2	13.9
Grampian	20.7	8.5	12.3
Highland	23.4	7.4	13.6
Lothian	13.1	7.1	9.5
Strathclyde	15.8	7.3	10.5
Tayside	20.1	9.7	13.6
Islands	¹—	¹—	¹—
Highland and Islands	23.4	7.9	13.6
Scotland		17.5	7.7
Great Britain	13.9	5.7	8.6
Part-time
Borders	¹—	²—	²—
Central	¹—	²—	²—
Dumfries and Galloway	¹—	²—	²—
Fife	54.8	²—	²—
Grampian	46.4	²—	²—
Highland	¹—	²—	²—
Lothian	37.4	²—	²—
Strathclyde	38.6	²—	²—
Tayside	49.7	²—	²—
Islands	¹—	²—	²—
Highland and Islands	¹—	²—	²—
Scotland	42.4	²—	²—
Great Britain	38.8	39.0	38.8
Full-time and part-time
Borders	¹—	²—	²—
Central	32.3	²—	²—
Dumfries and Galloway	34.8	²—	²—
Fife	34.2	²—	²—
Grampian	30.5	²—	²—
Highland	30.2	²—	²—
Lothian	20.6	²—	²—
Strathclyde	23.3	²—	²—
Tayside	29.9	²—	²—
Islands	¹—	²—	²—
Highland and Islands	31.2	²—	²—
Scotland	25.8	²—	²—
Great Britain	22.5	6.7	13.8
Source: New Earnings Survey.
¹ — Denotes sampling error too large or sample error too small for reliable estimate.
² — Denotes information not available.