§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many(a) men and (b) women working (i) full-time and (ii) part-time in (1) Pendle and (2) Lancashire earn less than (x) £3 per hour, (y) £3.60 per hour, and (z) £4 per hour; and, in each case, what is the percentage of the total number employed. [44380]
§ Mrs. LiddellThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the Chief Executive of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Tim Holt to Mr. Gordon Prentice, dated 9 June 1998:
As Director of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your parliamentary question on earnings.As with my reply on 22 May 1997, Official Report, column 117, I can give estimates of the percentage of employees in Pendle and Lancashire earning less than the hourly rates you mention, but not the number.The latest information, from the New Earnings Survey 1997, is contained in the attached table:
Employees on adult rates, whose pay for the survey pay-period was unaffected by absence—New Earnings Survey—April 1997 £3.00 £3.60 £4.00 Pendle1 Full-time men 0.0 1.3 1.3 Part-time men 2 — 2 — 2 — Full-time women 2.2 13.0 19.6 Part-time women 3.7 33.3 48.1 All employees 1.3 10.9 16.0 Lancashire Full-time men 0.5 3.7 6.7 Part-time men 6.1 32.3 37.4 Full-time women 1.4 7.9 12.2 Part-time women 6.0 26.3 41.6 All employees 1.9 9.9 15.5 1 Parliamentary constituency 2 denotes an estimate which is unavailable because the sample size is too small
People of working age1 in employment by occupational group and highest qualification United Kingdom, winter 1997/98, not seasonally adjusted Percentage Post—graduate Higher Education Further Education GCSE grades A-C or equivalent Below GCSE grades A-C Other-level unknown No qualifications Total Total in employment2 (thousand) 1. Managers and administrators 4.6 28.8 28.1 20.9 3.3 7.0 7.3 100.0 4,207 2. Professional occupations 23.5 59.5 9.1 4.1 0.4 3.0 0.4 100.0 2,705 3. Associate professional & technical occupations 5.5 50.4 21.5 14.2 1.9 4.5 1.9 100.0 2,623 4. Clerical, secretarial occupations 0.7 12.3 22.2 40.2 9.3 6.3 9.1 100.0 3,883 5. Craft and related occupations 0.3 6.4 52.8 14.7 6.3 5.4 14.0 100.0 3,251 6. Personal, protective occupations 0.4 9.3 23.7 31.0 8.2 12.0 15.4 100.0 2,794 7. Sales occupations 0.6 8.9 22.8 36.1 8.2 6.6 16.8 100.0 2,102 8. Plant and machine operatives 4 — 3.3 22.2 20.7 10.0 20.6 23 100.0 2,489 9. Other occupations 4 — 2.5 14.5 23.6 11.1 12.5 35.7 100.0 2,010 All in employment3 4.0 20.8 25.1 23.1 6.3 8.2 12.5 100.0 26,143 1 Working age is men aged 16–64 and women aged 16–59 2 Totals include a few people who did not state their highest qualification, but percentages calculated using valid responses only 3 Includes those who did not specify their occupation 4 Sample size too small for reliable estimate Source:
Labour Force Survey; ONS
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