§ Mr. KirkwoodTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will update to April 1994 the information on net earnings provided in his answer to the hon. Member for Fulham (Mr. Carrington) of 10 February 1987,Official Report, columns 177–78.
§ Mr. Dorrell[holding answer 31 January 1994]: Estimates of the levels of earnings for the top 5 per cent. of earners are not published. The information in the table is based on estimates of these levels derived from distributions of earnings published in the relevant New Earnings Survey for April 1993. Earnings levels are for men or women as appropriate paid at adult rates with pay unaffected by absence. Taxpayers are assumed to have no reliefs or allowances other than the appropriate personal allowance.
Earnings after Income Tax, National Insurance Contributions1 and Child Benefit, April 1993 £ per week Single man 485.80 Married man 499.00 Married man with two children under 11 517.10 Single woman 335.30 1 At the contracted-in rate.