§ Mr. MooreTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the average weekly gross pay(a) including 253W and (b) excluding overtime for full-time workers in (i) Scotland, (ii) each of the unitary local authority areas in Scotland and (iii) Great Britain for (A) all manual, (B) all non-manual and (C) all workers in the last year for which figures are available. [134578]
§ Ruth KellyThe information requested falls within the responsibility National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Michael Moore, dated 29 October 2003:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question on the average weekly gross pay (a) including and (b) excluding overtime for full-time workers in (i) Scotland (ii) each of the unitary local authority areas in Scotland and (iii) Great Britain for all workers. (134578)The attached tables show the average gross weekly gross pay (a) including and (b) excluding overtime for full-time workers in (i) Scotland (ii) each of the unitary local authority areas in Scotland and (iii) Great Britain for all workers.The tables do not include estimates for manual and non-manual employees separately. This is because the data have been coded on the Standard Occupational Classification 2000 which does not differentiate between manual and non-manual employees. An alternative to the manual and non-manual separation can be derived from the New Earnings Survey (NES), based on the National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification (NS-SEC). However, the two classification methods do produce different results and, to avoid misunderstanding, tables based on the NS-SEC will not be used to substitute for manual and non-manual employees in publications. Hence there is no data based on the manual and non-manual separation.The NES publication criteria state that all estimates with a sample number less than 30 or a relative standard error greater than 5 per cent. must be suppressed. A large number of estimates have been removed from the lists due to the suppression criteria. The information is based on the 2003 NES, the latest survey for which data are available, providing earnings data for April 2003.254W
Averge weekly earnings including overtime, all employees, April 2003 £ Area Average earnings Great Britain 475.8 Scotland 436.8 Scottish Unitary Authorities Aberdeen City 524.7 Aberdeenshire 422.2 Angus 398.3 Argyll and Bute 381.2 Scottish Borders, The 355.6 Clackmannanshire 1— Dumfries and Galloway 381.6 Dundee City 436.8 East Ayrshire 425.7 East Dunbartonshire 1— East Lothian 394.8 East Renfrewshire 1— Edinburgh, City of 467.0 Falkirk 412.9 Fife 409.7 Glasgow City 437.9 Highland 419.6 Inverclyde 379.7 Midlothian 409.1 Moray 1— North Ayrshire 409.3 North Lanarkshire 444.1 Orkney Islands 1— Perth and Kinross 405.5 Renfrewshire 439.7
Average weekly earnings including overtime, all employees, April 2003 £ Area Average earnings Shetland Islands 1— South Ayrshire 442.5 South Lanarkshire 421.8 Stirling 429.8 West Dunbartonshire 1— West Lothian 423.0 Western Isles 1— 1 Data have been suppressed due to small sample size or high relative standard error.
Average weekly earnings excluding overtime, all employees, April 2003 £ Area Average earnings Great Britain 457.4 Scotland 417.3 Scottish Unitary Authorities Aberdeen City 502.6 Aberdeenshire 390.8 Angus 371.6 Argyll and Bute 358.2 Scottish Borders, The 340.9 Clackmannanshire 1— Dumfries and Galloway 363.0 Dundee City 420.6 East Ayrshire 402.5 East Dunbartonshire 1— East Lothian 377.4 East Renfrewshire 1— Edinburgh, City of 455.0 Falkirk 388.9 Fife 387.9 Glasgow City 420.3 Highland 401.1 Inverclyde 366.6 Midlothian 394.1 Moray 344.7 North Ayrshire 394.1 North Lanarkshire 416.4 Orkney Islands 1— Perth and Kinross 389.8 Renfrewshire 419.6 Shetland Islands 1— South Ayrshire 419.8 South Lanarkshire 405.0 Stirling 403.9 West Dunbartonshire 1— West Lothian 394.9 Western Isles 1— 1 Data have been suppressed due to small sample size or high relative standard error
§ Mr. MooreTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what percentage of full-time workers in(a) Scotland, (b) each of the unitary local authority areas in Scotland and (c) Great Britain earned gross pay less than (i) £287.93 per week, (ii) £215.95 per week and (iii) £159.60 per week for the categories (A) male manual, (B) male non-manual, (C) all male, (D) female manual, (E) female non-manual, (F) all female, (G) all manual, (H) all non-manual and (I) all workers, (1) including and (2) excluding overtime in the last period for which figures are available. [134579]
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§ Ruth KellyThe information requested falls within the responsibility National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Michael Moore, dated 29 October 2003:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question on the percentage of full-time workers who earned gross pay beneath various thresholds in Great Britain, Scotland, and the unitary authorities in Scotland. (134579)I am placing in the House of Commons Library, six tables showing the percentage of full-time workers in (a) Scotland (b) each of the unitary local authority areas in Scotland and (c) Great Britain who earned gross pay less than (i) £287.93 (ii) £215.95 and (iii) £159.60 per week for (A) male workers (B) female workers and (C) all workers, (1) including and (2) excluding overtime.The tables do not include estimates for manual and non-manual employees separately. This is because the data have been coded on the Standard Occupational Classification 2000 which does not differentiate between manual and non-manual employees. An alternative to the manual and non-manual separation can be derived from the New Earnings Survey (NES), based on the National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification (NS-SEC). However, the two classification methods do produce different results and, to avoid misunderstanding, tables based on the NS-SEC will not be used to substitute for manual and non-manual employees in publications. Hence there is no data based on the manual and non-manual separation.There are no data available for each of the unitary local authority areas in Scotland for full-time workers who earned gross pay less than £159.60 per week including and excluding overtime due to our publication criteria.This is a result of the New Earnings Survey publication criteria, which state that all estimates with a sample number less than 30 or a relative standard error greater than 5 per cent. must be suppressed. A large number of estimates have been removed from the lists due to the suppression criteria. The information is based on the 2003 NES, the latest survey for which data are available, providing earnings data for April 2003.