§ Mr. Peter BottomleyTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the distribution of earnings and of ages of households having a first child. [36971]
§ Mrs. Angela KnightThe table shows the breakdown of households by range of total gross weekly earnings and age of eldest dependent child as estimated from the winter 1994 labour force survey. Benefits are excluded.
Age of eldest dependent child 0–5 6–10 11–15 >15 Total <£200 6 6 10 5 27 £201–£300 4 4 4 2 14 £301–£400 4 4 5 2 16 £401–£500 4 4 4 2 13 £501–£600 2 2 3 2 9 £601–£700 2 2 2 2 7 £701–£800 1 1 1 2 5 £801–£900 1 1 1 2 3 >£900 2 1 2 1 7 Total 26 25 31 18 100
§ Mr. RowlandsTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what estimate his Department has made of the hourly average rate of pay in manufacturing in(a) the United Kingdom and (b) in each of the members of the European Union; [30074]
(2) what estimate his Department has made of the average hourly rate of pay in food retailing. [37005]
§ Mrs. KnightEstimates of manufacturing hourly earnings for manual and non-manual workers in the United Kingdom and the other member states of the European Union are published by Eurostat in "Earnings—Industry and Services 1994". This report is available in the House of Commons Library.
More recent information on hourly earnings by industry of full-time adult workers in Great Britain, is shown in tables X2.1–X2.7 of part A of the April 1995 new earnings survey report, also available in the House of Commons Library. Table X2.1 gives date for all manufacturing, and food retailing is shown in table X2.5.
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