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Mr. Thomas Cox
asked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the present average wage paid in Great Britain.
Mr. Chichester-Clark
The latest available comprehensive information on average earnings is obtained from the New Earnings Survey and relates to April 1973. The following are estimates from that survey of average gross weekly earnings in April 1973 in Great Britain of full-time adults whose pay for the survey reference period was not affected by absence:
| Average gross weekly earnings | |
| £ | |
| Full-time manual men (aged 21 and over) | 38·10 |
| Full-time manual women (aged 18 and over) | 19·70 |