HC Deb 20 January 1994 vol 235 cc803-7W
Mr. Battle

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what percentage of(a) manual, (b) non manual, (c) all, (d) male, (e) female, (f) full and (g) part-time workers on adult rates earn less than £2.40, £2.60, £2.80, £3.00, £3.20, £3.40, £3.60, £3.80, £4.00, £4.40, £4.80, £5.20, £5.60 and £6 per hour, including and excluding overtime, in Yorkshire and Humberside, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Humberside, the north and Great Britain.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

The information available from the new earnings survey is contained in tables. I have arranged for copies to be available in the Library.

Mr. Battle

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what percentage of full-time(a) male, (b) female, (c) manual, (d) non-manual and (e) all workers on adult rates earn less than £100, £120, £140, £150, £160, £170, £180, £190, £200, £210, £220, £250, £300 and £340 per week, including and excluding overtime, in Yorkshire and Humberside, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Humberside, the North and Great Britain.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

Information from the new earnings survey can be found in tables. I have arranged for copies to be available in the Library.

Mr. Battle

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the average hourly and weekly pay, including and excluding overtime, for both full-time(a) manual, (b) non-manual and (c) all men and women on adult rates in Yorkshire and Humberside, the north and Great Britain in 1970, 1975, 1984 and the latest available year.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

The information requested for 1975, 1984 and 1993 can be found in part E of the new earnings survey for each of those years. Details of average weekly earnings and of the overtime component together with average hourly earnings excluding overtime are published in tables 108 to 113. Details of average hourly earnings including overtime are published in tables 122 and 123.

Average earnings excluding overtime is not available for 1970. Average weekly and hourly earnings including overtime for 1970 is provided in the table:

Full-time employees—pay unaffected by absence: April 1970
Average gross weekly earnings Average gross hourly earnings
including overtime excluding overtime including overtime excluding overtime
£ £ £ £
Manual men
Yorkshire and Humberside 25.8 0.54
North 26.3 0.56
Great Britain 26.9 0.57
Non-manual men
Yorkshire and Humberside 32.9 0.83
North 33.5 0.85
Great Britain 35.8 0.90
All men
Yorkshire and Humberside 27.9 0.61
North 28.5 0.63
Great Britain 30.0 0.67
Manual women
Yorkshire and Humberside 12.6 0.32
North 12.6 0.31
Great Britain 13.4 0.33
Non-manual women
Yorkshire and Humberside 16.3 0.44
North 16.4 0.43
Great Britain 17.8 0.48
All women
Yorkshire and Humberside 14.9 0.39
North 15.0 0.39
Great Britain 16.3 0.43

Mr. Tony Lloyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will provide the latest figures for numbers of full-time employees on adult rates in(a) Greater Manchester, (b) Merseyside, (c) Cheshire, (d) Lancashire and (e) the north-west region whose weekly earnings excluding overtime were less than £220 and less than £200 under the headings of manual males, non-manual males, all full-time males, manual females, non-manual females, and all full-time females, giving total numbers of employees in the sample in each case; and what is the number of part-time employees on adult rates in (i) Greater Manchester, (ii) Merseyside, (iii) Cheshire, (iv) Lancashire and (v) the north-west region whose hourly earnings excluding overtime were less than £6 and less than £5.30 under the headings of manual females, non-manual females, all part-time females, manual males, non-manual males, and all part-time males, giving total number of employees in the sample in each case.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

Information available from the new earnings survey is provided in the following tables:

Full-time employees on adult rates of pay whose pay was not affected by absence for the survey pay period Number in sample and percentage with gross weekly earnings (exluding overtime) below the following amounts: April 1993
£200 £220
Number in sample Percent. Number in sample Per cent.
Manual men
Greater Manchester 592 38.2 799 51.5
Merseyside 231 32.4 311 43.6
Cheshire 217 34.1 269 42.3
Lancashire 340 40.9 450 54.2
North West region 1,380 37.0 1,829 49.0
Non-mauual men
Greater Manchester 285 16.0 352 19.9
Merseyside 162 19.1 205 24.2
Cheshire 66 8.9 93 12.6
Lancashire 147 18.6 177 22.3
North West region 660 15.9 828 19.9
All men
Greater Manchester 877 26.4 1,152 34.6
Merseyside 393 25.2 516 33.1
Cheshire 283 20.6 362 26.3
Lancashire 487 30.0 627 38.6
North West region 2,040 25.9 2,657 33.7
Manual women
Greater Manchester 298 81.9 390 87.9
Merseyside 108 76.6 123 87.2
Cheshire 97 77.0 109 86.5
Lancashire 154 80.6 171 89.5
North West region 657 79.9 723 88.0
Non-manual women
Greater Manchester 661 41.3 830 51.9
Merseyside 329 39.0 417 49.4
Cheshire 250 42.2 303 51.2
Lancashire 335 47.1 404 56.7
North West region 1,575 42.0 1,954 52.1
All women
Greater Manchester 959 48.8 1,150 58.6
Merseyside 437 44.4 540 54.8
Cheshire 347 48.3 412 57.4
Lancashire 489 54.2 575 63.7
North West region 2,232 48.8 2,677 58.6

Part-time employees on adult rates of pay whose pay was not affected by absence for the survey pay period Number in sample and percentage with gross hourly earnings (excluding overtime) below the following amounts: April 1993
£5.30 £6.00
Number in sample Per cent. Number in sample Per cent.
Manual women
Greater Manchester 327 91.1 342 95.3
Merseyside 222 93.3 229 96.2
Cheshire 133 85.3 143 91.7
Lancashire 195 92.9 201 95.7
North West region 877 91.1 915 95.0
Non-manual women
Greater Manchester 420 69.7 459 76.1
Merseyside 211 60.8 243 70.0
Cheshire 174. 65.4 191 71.8
Lancashire 192 61.7 225 72.3
North West region 997 65.3 1,118 73.2
All women
Greater Manchester 747 77.7 801 83.3
Merseyside 433 74.0 472 80.7
Cheshire 307 72.7 334 79.1
Lancashire 387 74.3 426 81.8
North West Region 1,874 75.3 2,033 81.6
Manual men
Greater Manchester n/a n/a n/a n/a
Merseyside n/a n/a n/a n/a

£5.30 £6.00
Number in sample Per cent. Number in sample Per cent.
Cheshire n/a n/a n/a n/a
Lancashire n/a n/a n/a n/a
North West region 116 82.9 126 90.0
Non-manual men
Greater Manchester n/a n/a n/a n/a
Merseyside n/a n/a n/a n/a
Cheshire n/a n/a n/a n/a
Lancashire n/a n/a n/a n/a
North West region n/a n/a n/a n/a
All men
Greater Manchester n/a n/a n/a n/a
Merseyside n/a n/a n/a n/a
Cheshire n/a n/a n/a n/a
Lancashire n/a n/a n/a n/a
North West region n/a n/a n/a n/a

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