§ Mr. TimmsTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the number of people in(a) Newham, (b) Tower Hamlets, (c) Hackney, (d) Redbridge, (e) Waltham Forest, (f) Barking and Dagenham and (g) the United Kingdom who earn less than (i) £2.50, (ii) £3, (iii) £3.50 and (d) £4 per hour: and what this figure is as a proportion of all employees. [6814]
§ Mrs. Liddell[holding answer 7 July 1997]: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the 404W 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. Stephen Holt, dated 8 July 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 latest information, from the New Earnings Survey (NES) April 1996, is given in the attached tables. Data are provided for the Great Britain as information for the United Kingdom is not available.It is ONS practice for NES answers to be given as proportions earning below specified thresholds, rather than numbers, because of problems with obtaining appropriate grossing factors for the NES sample at a very detailed level of disaggregation (e.g. by industry and electoral ward).
Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence, NES April 1996 Percentage of employees with hourly earnings (excluding overtime) less than: £2.50 £3.00 £3.50 £4.00 Newham Full-time 0.3 1.0 2.1 3.4 Part-time 2.2 2.2 8.9 15.6 All 0.6 1.2 3.0 5.1 Tower Hamlets Full-time 0.0 0.1 0.6 2.7 Part-time 1.4 1.4 4.1 9.5 All 0.1 0.3 0.9 3.3 Hackney Full-time 0.0 0.0 1.4 3.3 Part-time 3.9 6.6 15.8 17.1 All 0.7 1.1 3.9 5.7 Redbridge Full-time 0.4 1.1 3.8 6.1 Part-time 10.3 11.5 18.4 29.9 All 2.9 3.7 7.4 12.0 Waltham Forest Full-time 0.5 1.9 2.9 5.8 Part-time 5.6 9.9 22.5 28.2 All 1.8 4.0 7.9 11.6 Barking and Dagenham Full-time 0.4 0.4 0.8 1.6 Part-time 4.3 4.3 15.2 26.1 All 1.0 1.0 3.0 5.3 Great Britain Full-time 0.7 1.6 4.1 8.4 Part-time 4.4 7.5 20.6 36.9 All 1.5 2.8 7.6 14.4
§ Ms WalleyTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people in the constituency of Stoke-on-Trent, North earn(a) less than £4 per hour, (b) £3.50 per hour and (c) £3 per hour. [6866]
§ Mrs. LiddellThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the Chief Executive of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him lo arrange for a reply to be given.
405WLetter from Tim Holt to Ms Joan Walley, dated 8 July 1997:
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has asked me to reply as Director of the Office for National Statistics to your recent question on earnings in Stoke-on-Trent parliamentary constituency.The latest available information, from the New Earnings Survey (NES) April 1996, is given in the table below for the parliamentary constituency of Stoke-on-Trent North.
Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence, NES April 1996 Percentage of employees with hourly earnings (excluding overtime) less than: £3.00 £3.50 £4.00 Stoke on Trent North Full-time 0.5 1.5 11.1 Part-time 9.5 28.6 52.4 All 1.4 4.1 15.0