§ Mr. PondTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list for April 1997 the number and proportion of manual, non-manual and all full-time employees on adult rates earning less than(a) £174.85, (b) £233.13 and (c) £249.97 per week excluding overtime for (i) men, (ii) women and (iii) both sexes for (1) each county and unitary authority in England, (2) each unitary authority in Wales, (3) each London borough, (4) each unitary 170W authority in Scotland, (5) Great Britain as a whole, (6) England as a whole and (7) each Government office region. [18277]
§ Mrs. LiddellThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the Chief Executive of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Tim Holt to Mr. Chris Pond, dated 2 December 1997:
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has asked me to reply, as the Director of the Office for National Statistics, to your recent question on earnings.The available information, from the New Earnings Survey April 1997, is given in the attached tables. These tables are voluminous and copies of them are being placed in the Library of the House rather than reproduced in Hansard.
§ Mr. ChidgeyTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list, by regions defined by the boundaries of the regional government offices, the lowest hourly rate paid by his Department to(a) full-time employees, (b) part-time employees, (c) persons employed under personal contract and (d) persons employed by firms undertaking contracted-out services for central government offices, defining the job title in each case. [18109]
§ Mrs. LiddellThe Treasury has no offices outside central London. The lowest hourly rates paid to full-time, part-time and short-term appointment employees are as follows:
Lowest hourly rates in £s Full-time employees 5.47 Part-time employees 5.95 Short-term appointments1 4.34 1 Staff on fixed-term appointments and casual staff who are appointed on short-term contracts for periods of up to 12 months. The rates above are paid to a small number of staff most of whom are engaged on clerical and administrative support work.
The hourly rates for staff employed by firms undertaking contracted out services for the department are a matter for the companies concerned.
§ Mr. ChidgeyTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many employees in each of the regions defined by the boundaries of the regional government offices are paid an hourly rate of(a) less than £1.50, (b) between £1.50 and £2, (c) between £2 and £2.50, (d) between £2.50 and £3 and (e) between £3 and £3.50. [18105]
§ Mrs. LiddellThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the Chief Executive of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Tim Holt to Mr. David Chidgey, dated 2 December 1997:
171WThe Chancellor of the Exchequer has asked me to reply, as the Director of the Office for National Statistics, to your recent question on earnings.The available information, from the New Earnings Survey April 1997, is given in the attached table.
Percentage of people with an hourly rate (excluding overtime) Government Office Region Less than £1.50 Between £1.50 and £2 Between £2 and £2.50 Between £2.50 and £3 Between £3 and £3.50 North East Region 0.2 0.3 0.7 1.3 5.9 North West Region 0.2 0.3 0.5 1.1 4.6 Merseyside Region 0.1 0.1 0.1 1.7 4.5 Yorkshire and The Humber Region 0.3 0.4 0.5 1.3 5.2 East Midlands Region 0.2 0.3 0.3 1.5 4.4 West Midlands Region 0.3 0.4 0.6 1.4 4.3 South West Region 0.4 0.3 0.4 1.3 4.4 Eastern Region 0.3 0.3 0.5 1.1 3.3 London 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.5 1.4 South East Region 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.8 2.8 Wales 0.3 0.3 0.5 1.3 5.1 Scotland 0.3 0.5 0.5 1.1 4.3 Notes:
Wage ranges per hour are constructed thus: between £1.50 and £2 means equal to, or greater than £1.50 but less than £2 per hour and so on throughout the distribution.
All employees on adult rates, whose pay for the survey pay period was unaffected by absence.
Source:
New Earnings Survey, April 1997 (GB).