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Mr. Gwynoro Jones
asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people were earning less than £1,000 per annum in 1969–70 in Wales and Carmarthenshire, respectively; and what proportion this was of the working population.
Mr. Bryan
Such information on annual earnings in 1969–70 is not available. However, the following New Earnings Survey 1970 results relate to employees in full-time employment whose earnings in the survey pay-period in April, 1970 were not affected by absence during the period.
| PERCENTAGE WITH GROSS WEEKLY EARNINGS UNDER £20 | ||
| Wales | Great Britain | |
| Men aged 21 and over | ||
| Manual | 21·1 | 21·2 |
| Non-manual | 11·7 | 11·4 |
| All | 18·3 | 17·7 |
| (about 90,000 men) | ||
| Women aged 18and over | ||
| Manual | 96·2 | 93·4 |
| Non-manual | 72·4 | 72·6 |
| All | 80·6 | 79·6 |
| (about 150,000 women) | ||