HC Deb 02 November 1993 vol 231 cc158-64W
Mr. Prescott

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish tables showing the proportion of (1) full-time employees earning less than(a) £215.50, (b) £203.07 and (c) £152.30 per week, (2) part-time employees earning less than (x) £5.75, (y) £5.42 and (z) £4.05 per hour, excluding overtime payments, for (i) Great Britain as a whole, (ii) each county in England, (iii) each county in Wales, (iv) each London borough and Greater London as a whole and (v) each regional authority and borough in Scotland.

Miss Widdecombe

The information available from the "New Earnings Survey" is provided in the following tables:

Full time employees on adult rates—pay unaffected by absence: proportion with gross weekly earnings below the following amounts: at April 1993
Per cent £152.30 £203.07 £215.50
GREAT BRITAIN 9.8 26.7 31.1
South East Region 5.8 18. 2 21.7
Bedfordshire 7.4 21.8 25.4
Berkshire 4.3 16.5 19.6
Buckinghamshire 7.1 23.0 27.4
East Sussex 11.2 33.3 38.1
Essex 9.0 25.9 31.0
Hampshire 8.5 25.1 29.6
Hertfordshire 5.9 21.2 24.7
Isle of Wight 15.4 35.1 40.4
Kent 9.1 26.0 31. 1
Oxfordshire 7.1 24.6 28.3
Surrey 5.2 17.1 20.6
West Sussex 7.9 25.6 29.6
East Anglia Region 11.2 30.1 34.9
Cambridgeshire 8.9 26.3 30.8
Norfolk 12.2 31.5 36.5
Suffolk 12.8 33.0 38.0
South West Region 10.7 30.8 35.6
Avon 8.2 25.7 29.9
Cornwall 20.7 44. 1 50. 1
Devon 13 .9 36.0 41.8
Dorset 10.5 33.3 37.9
Gloucestershire 8.8 27.9 33.3
Somerset 12.6 34.0 37.1
Wiltshire 6.7 25.4 29.7
West Midlands Region 11.6 30.8 35.7
West Midlands MC 10.2 27.5 32.5
Hereford and Worcester 13 .7 34.8 40.1
Shropshire 15.5 36.8 41.7
Staffordshire 13.3 36.4 41.5
Warwickshire 11.3 29.6 33.2
East Midlands Region 12.5 31.7 36.6
Derbyshire 11.4 29.2 33.8
Leicestershire 12.6 31.1 36.6
Lincolnshire 15.5 36.5 41.4
Northamptonshire 8.3 27.9 32.0
Nottinghamshire 14.6 34.2 39.6
Yorkshire and Humberside Region 11.9 31.1 35.8
South Yorkshire MC 116 28.8 32.9
West Yorkshire MC 11.0 31.1 36.4
Humberside 13.2 32.7 36.6
North Yorkshire 13.9 33.5 38.5
North West Region 11.6 30.1 35.1
Greater Manchester MC 11.3 30.7 35.6
Merseyside MC 11.1 28.1 34.1
Cheshire 10.3 26.0 30.0
Lancashire 13.9 34.4 39.3
North Region 12.9 30.9 35.7
Tyne and Wear MC 12.3 29.9 35.2
Cleveland 13.0 28.7 33.1
Cumbria 12.2 27.7 31.8
Durham 14.2 35.1 40.1
Northumberland 14.0 37.1 41.8
Wales 13.2 33.6 38.4
Clwyd 13.6 32.1 36.0
Clwyd-West 15.6 37.9 40.6
Clwyd-East 12.7 29.3 33.9
Dyfed (excluding Llanelli) 16.9 38.2 43.0
Gwent 13.9 32.9 38.4
Gwynedd 18.2 39.1 42.6
Mid-Glamorgan 15.1 37.9 43.5
Powys 15.0 36.1 41.1
South Glamorgan 8.8 27.8 33.7
West Glamorgan (including Llanelli) 11.4 33.5 37.1

Per cent £152.30 £203.07 £215.50
Greater London 3.7 12.0 14.8
City of London 1.1 4.3 5.6
Barking 3.7 10.1 13.9
Barnet 6.0 20.3 23.9
Bexley 4.0 16.8 22.5
Brent 3.6 16.8 20.7
Bromley 9.0 25.0 28.4
Camden 3.1 11.0 13.1
Croydon 6.5 16.7 20.9
Ealing 4.5 13.8 18.2
Enfield 3.9 14.3 18.5
Greenwich 4.2 16.2 22.3
Hackney ֵ ֵ ֵ
Hammersmith 3.0 9.8 12.4
Haringey 7.4 15.6 18.5
Harrow 4.8 18.5 22.1
Havering 8.5 21.0 23.4
Hillingdon 1.8 9.2 11.4
Hounslow 3.1 12.4 14.6
Islington 2.5 6.4 8.0
Kensington and Chelsea 5.8 17.6 22.3
Kingston.upon.Thames 5.4 16.5 21.0
Lambeth 2.6 9.4 12.0
Lewisham 5.0 17.0 18.1
Merton 6.0 17.0 20.9
Newham 2.7 11.4 13.5
Redbridge 6.9 21.1 25.8
Richmond.upon.Thames 4.8 16. 7 20.7
Southwark 2.3 8.7 9.8
Sutton 5.6 16..5 21.2
Tower Hamlets 2.4 6.2 7.6
Waltham Forest 8.7 23.0 29.0
Wandsworth 3.6 13. 3 16.7
City of Westminster 3.0 9.7 12.6
Scotland 11.7 31.0 36.2
Borders 23.4 45.4 51. 5
Central 13 .3 30.0 33.9
Dumfries and Galloway 16.4 36.2 39.9
Fife 15. 2 33.3 38.3
Grampian 9.9 26.8 31.4
Highland 14.1 38.0 47.2
Lothian 9.1 29.0 33.5
Strathclyde 11.5 30.5 36.1
Tayside 12.6 34.9 40.7
Orkney and Shetland, Western Isles
Highlands and Islands 13.4 361 43.3

Part time employees on adult ratespay unaffected by absence: proportion with gross hourly earnings excluding overtime below the following amounts: at April 1993
Per cent £4.05 £5.42 £5.75
GREAT BRITAIN 38.3 59.0 62.1
South East Region 28.2 51.3 54.8
Bedfordshire 41.3 60.2 63.7
Berkshire 1
Buckinghamshire 27.1 48.8 53.9
East Sussex 36.8 61.2 63.3
Essex 36.8 59.2 61.6
Hampshire 40.0 58.5 63.3
Hertfordshire 28. 3 56.6 59.2
Isle of Wight
Kent 35.6 57.7 61.0
Oxfordshire 34.4 54.2 56.2
Surrey 23.5 47.1 52.1
West Sussex 27.2 45.1 48.3
East Anglia Region 34.5 52.1 54.8
Cambridgeshire 33.0 51.8 55.7
Norfolk 33.8 51.4 54.0
Suffolk 36.7 53.1 54.7
South West Region 41.9 61.8 64.2

Per cent £4.05 £5.42 £5.75
Avon 43.0 62.0 64.8
Cornwall 45.4 56.7 60.6
Devon 41.3 61.9 63.2
Dorset 44.8 64.3 65.8
Gloucestershire
Somerset 42.3 67.1 68.7
Wiltshire 36.0 62.4 64.9
West Midlands Region 42.8 62.9 65.7
West Midlands MC 40.6 62.7 65.5
Hereford and Worcester 44.4 61.0 64.2
Shropshire 43.5 58.7 61.5
Staffordshire 47.2 67.2 69.7
Warwickshire 44.5 63.1 65.1
East Midlands Region 41.6 61.8 64.4
Derbyshire 39.7 57.8 60.6
Leicestershire 40.1 62.6 65.0
Lincolnshire 40.9 58.4 60.8
Northamptonshire 41.9 63.7 66.3
Nottinghamshire 45.5 66.4 69.1
Yorkshire and Humberside Region 43.8 65.6 69.2
South Yorkshire MC 47.6 69.6 72.8
West Yorkshire MC 43.1 64.5 68.4
Humberside 44.6 66.4 69.5
North Yorkshire 38.0 60.5 64.8
North West Region 42.8 63.6 66.5
Greater Manchester MC 42.7 65.0 67.5
Merseyside MC 45.6 65.2 68.6
Cheshire 38.6 59.3 62.7
Lancashire 43.4 62.5 65.6
North Region 47.3 66.4 69.6
Tyne and Wear MC 46.0 66.9 70.5
Cleveland 45.9 62.0 65.6
Cumbria 44.8 65.2 69.1
Durham 51.0 66.7 69.5
Northumberland 52.5 72.9 73.7
Wales 45.2 61.4 64.1
Clwyd 41.1 53.4 57.2
Clwyd-West
Clwyd-East 44.0 57.4 59.8
Dyfed (ex. Llanelli) 36.0 48.0 52.0
Gwent 41.5 62.5 65.1
Gwynedd 40.4 53.5 54.7
Mid-Glamorgan 56.6 70.9 72.7
Powys
South Glamorgan 46.6 68.8 71.5
West Glamorgan (inc. Llanelli) 44.0 58.6 62.5
Greater London 18.6 43.3 46.7
City of London
Barking
Barnet
Bexley
Brent
Bromley
Camden
Croydon
Ealing
Enfield 20.9 49.1 50.8
Greenwich
Hackney
Hammersmith
Haringey
Harrow
Havering
Hillingdon 17.0 43.0 45.5
Hounslow
Islington
Kensington and Chelsea
Kingston upon Thames 16.8 51.6 53.9
Lambeth
Lewisham
Merton

Per cent £4.05 £5.42 £5.75
Newham
Redbridge 26.5 48.9 51.0
Richmond upon Thames
Southwark
Sutton
Tower Hamlets
Waltham Forest 29.2 60.9 65.8
Wandsworth 21.1 42.3 45.1
City of Westminster
Scotland 42.8 61.5 64.6
Borders
Central 39.7 59.5 61.6
Dumfries and Galloway
Fife 46.2 62.8 65.1
Grampian 48.4 62.7 64.0
Highland 40.9 52.7 55.4
Lothian 42.3 61.3 65.7
Strathclyde 42.5 63.4 67.3
Tayside 41.9 58.9 60.8
Orkney, Shetland, Western Isles
Highlands and Islands 37.4 50.3 52.9

"—" denotes sample number too small or standard error too large for reliable estimate.

Source: New Earnings Survey.

Mr. Prescott

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many adult(a) male and (b) female part-time workers there were in Great Britain in April; and what is the proportion of those workers whose earnings, excluding overtime, fell below (i) £5.75 per hour, (ii) £5.42 per hour and (iii) £4.05 per hour.

Miss Widdecombe

In March 1993 there were 1,113,000 male part-time and 4,680,000 female part-time employees in employment in Great Britain.

The information requested showing estimates of the distribution of earnings of those employees at April is as follows:

Part-time employees on adult rates—pay unaffected by absence: proportion with gross hourly earnings excluding overtime below the following amounts: at April 1993
Per cent £4.05 £5.42 £5.75
Great Britain
Men 31.0 44.6 46.4
Women 39.4 61 3 64.6

Source: New Earnings Survey and Short Term Employment Statistics.

Mr. Prescott

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish tables showing the proportions of manual, non-manual and all full-time employees earning less than(a) £215.50 per week, (b) £203.07 per week and (c) £152.30 per week, excluding overtime payments, for (i) men, (ii) women and (iii) both sexes, by standard economic region, for Great Britain as a whole and for Northern Ireland.

Miss Widdecombe

The information available from the "New Earnings Survey" is provided in the following tables:

Full-time employees on adult rates—pay unaffected by absence: proportion with gross weekly earnings excluding overtime below the following amounts: at April 1993
Per cent.
£152.30 £203.07 £215.50
Manual men
Great Britain 11.8 38.1 45.4
South East 8.6 30.0 36.1

£152.30 £203.07 £215.50
East Anglia 11.4 41.7 49.2
South West 12.9 42.7 50.5
West Midlands 12.3 40.0 47.6
East Midlands 13.5 41.5 48.7
Yorkshire and Humberside 13 2 41.3 48.8
North West 12.1 38.9 47.0
North 13 3 36.1 44.4
Scotland 12.5 42.5 50.3
Wales 16.1 43.8 50.9
Northern Ireland1 19.0 45.0 51.0
Non-manual men
Great Britain 4.4 13 5 16.1
South East 2.7 9.4 11.4
East Anglia 4.6 14 9 17.2
South West 4.4 15.3 18.2
West Midlands 5.5 15.8 19.0
East Midlands 5.6 16 8 19 8
Yorkshire and Humberside 6.0 17.4 20.7
North West 5.8 16 5 19.2
North 5.0 14.4 17.8
Scotland 5.2 15.3 18.4
Wales 6.5 17.6 20.3
Northern Ireland1 8.0 18.0 20.0
All men
Great Britain 7.7 24.6 29.3
South East 4.8 16.6 20.0
East Anglia 8.1 28.5 33.4
South West 8.1 27.4 32.4
West Midlands 9.0 28.1 33.6
East Midlands 9.8 29.9 35.1
Yorkshire and Humberside 9.7 29.7 35.1
North West 8.8 27.1 32.4
North 9.5 26.3 32.4
Scotland 8.7 28.5 33.9
Wales 11.6 31.5 36.5
Northern Ireland1 14.0 31.0 36.0
Manual women
Great Britain 47.6 79.7 84.4
South East 36.4 70.3 74.8
East Anglia 53.2 84.7 89.6
South West 53.3 86.0 89.8
West Midlands 50.1 82.1 86.7
East Midlands 55.1 87.6 91 6
Yorkshire and Humberside 54.3 84.1 88.3
North West 51.9 81.1 86.7
North 50.7 80.4 85.2
Scotland 48.6 80 3 86.3
Wales 47.5 82.7 87.9
Northern Ireland1 63.0 87.0 90.0
Non-manual women
Great Britain 13.2 37.1 43.3
South East 6.5 23.4 28.5
East Anglia 17.4 46.0 52.4
South West 15.4 45.0 51.5
West Midlands 17.5 45.9 51.9
East Midlands 18.2 46.7 53.7
Yorkshire and Humberside 18 0 45.6 52.0
North West 15.9 43.6 50.6
North 19.9 49.6 56.4
Scotland 16.9 44.1 51.4
Wales 17.2 44.4 51.7
Northern Ireland1 21.0 44.0 48.0
All women
Great Britain 19.2 44.7 50.5
South East 10.4 29.6 34.6
East Anglia 24.4 53.5 59.6
South West 21.4 51 5 57.6
West Midlands 24.5 53.7 59.4
East Midlands 28.0 57.5 63.7
Yorkshire and Humberside 25.1 53 1 59.1
North West 22.4 50.3 57.1
North 26.5 56.2 62.5
Scotland 23.2 51.3 58.4

£152.30 £203.07 £215.50
Wales 23.7 52.6 59.4
Northern Ireland1 31.0 54.0 58.0
Manual employees
Great Britain 18.3 45.7 52.5
South East 13.9 37.6 43.4
East Anglia 18.4 48.9 55.9
South West 19.7 50.0 57.2
West Midlands 19.1 47.6 54.7
East Midlands 21.6 50.5 57.1
Yorkshire and Humberside 19.9 48.3 55.3
North West 19.3 46.5 54.2
North 19.7 43.6 51.3
Scotland 19.7 50.1 57.5
Wales 21.8 50.9 57.6
Northern Ireland1 29.0 54.0 60.0
Non-manual employees
Great Britain 8.4 24.4 28.6
South East 4.4 15 8 19.1
East Anglia 10.5 29.3 33.5
South West 9.5 28.9 33.5
West Midlands 11.0 29.6 34.0
East Midlands 11.0 29.7 34.5
Yorkshire and Humberside 11.5 30.3 35 0
North West 10.6 29.4 34.1
North 12.1 31.2 36.2
Scotland 10 8 29.3 34.5
Wales 11.6 30.4 35.3
Northern Ireland1 14.0 31.0 34.0
All employees
Great Britain 11.9 31 8 37.0
South East 6.9 21.6 25.6
East Anglia 13.7 37.1 42.4
South West 12.9 36.1 41.5
West Midlands 14.3 36.9 42.5
East Midlands 15 7 38.9 44.5
Yorkshire and Humberside 14.9 37.6 43.2
North West 13.8 35.6 41.4
North 15.4 36.5 42.7
Scotland 14.2 37.1 43.2
Wales 15.9 39.0 44.6
Northern Ireland1 20.0 40.0 44.0
1 Information is at April 1992 and inclusive of overtime.

Source: New Earnings Survey, Great Britain and Northern Ireland.