asked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) what
| AVERAGE GROSS WEEKLY EARNINGS OF FULL-TIME MANUAL WORKERS | |||||
| Industry—(Minimum List Heading of the Standard Industrial Classification) | Men aged 21 and over | Women aged 18 and over | |||
| £ | £ | ||||
| Production of man-made fibres | … | … | … | 72·00 | 46·38 |
| Spinning and doubling on the cotton and flax systems | … | … | … | 57·22 | 40·13 |
| Weaving of cotton, linen and man-made fibres | … | … | … | 58·11 | 39·68 |
| Woollen and Worsted | … | … | … | 59·11 | 37·89 |
| Jute | … | … | … | 54·44 | 42·48 |
| Rope, twine and net | … | … | … | 56·55 | 39·67 |
| Hosiery and other knitted goods | … | … | … | 59·07 | 35·83 |
| Lace | … | … | … | 59·12 | 33·62 |
| Carpets | … | … | … | 65·43 | 48·31 |
| Narrow fabrics (not more than 30 cms. wide) | … | … | … | 54·68 | 35·57 |
| Made up textiles | … | … | … | 52·61 | 32·69 |
| Textile finishing | … | … | … | 58·93 | 38·95 |
| Other textile industries | … | … | … | 66·87 | 41·53 |
is his current estimate, to the latest convenient date, of the number of people employed in the United Kingdom textile industry;
(2) what proportion of those people employed in the United Kingdom textile industry are women.
At February 1977, the latest date for which information is available, the estimated number of employees in employment in the textile industry in the United Kingdom was 526,000, of which 45 per cent. were females.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment what is his estimate, to the latest convenient date, of the number of people who have been made redundant by firms in the textile industry during the last year.
I am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that the number of workpeople involved in redundancies recorded as due to occur in the textile industry during the period 1st May 1976 to 30th April 1977 was 9,870.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the current average wages in each section of the textile industry in the United Kingdom.
The latest available estimates relate to October 1976. They were obtained from my Department's annual inquiry in these and other manufacturing industries and relate to full-time manual workers including those whose pay for the reference week was affected by absence.