asked the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will list in the Official Report for the latest date for which figures are available and for each of the previous five years (a) the average wage for a woman in full-time employment and (b) the number of such workers who earned less than that amount; and what percentage this represents in each case (i) nationally and (ii) in Cambridgeshire.
The following table sets out the available information from the new earnings survey between 1979 and 1984 in respect of full-time adult female employees working a full week.
| Average gross weekly earnings | Percentage of employees earning less than the relevant average | ||||
| (1) Great Britain £ | (2) Cambridgeshire £ | (2) as a per-centage of (1) | Great Britain | Cambridgeshire | |
| 1979* | 63·0 | 61·9 | 98 | 59 | 58 |
| 1980* | 78·8 | 75·0 | 95 | 60 | 60 |
| 1981* | 91·4 | 87·3 | 96 | 61 | 60 |
| 1982* | 99·0 | 96·4 | 97 | 58 | 60 |
| 1983* | 108·8 | 104·4 | 96 | 61 | 60 |
| † | 109·5 | 104·2 | 95 | 61 | 60 |
| 1984 | 117·2 | 113·8 | 97 | 60 | 61 |
| * Females aged 18 and over. | |||||
| † Females on adult rates of pay. | |||||
asked the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will list in the Official Report for the latest date for which figures are available and for each of the previous five years (a) the average wage for a man in full-time employment and (b) the number of such workers who earned less than that amount; and what percentage this represents, in each case (i) nationally and (ii) in Cambridgeshire.
The following table sets out the available information from the new earnings survey between 1979 and 1984 in respect of full-time adult male employees working a full week.
| Average gross weekly earnings | Percentage of employees earning less than the relevant average | ||||
| (1) Great Britain Car £ | (2) Cambridgeshire £ | (2) as a per-centage of (1) | Great Britain | Cambridgeshire | |
| 1979* | 101·4 | 101·9 | 100 | 59 | 60 |
| 1980* | 124·5 | 118·8 | 95 | 61 | 61 |
| 1981* | 140·5 | 139·1 | 99 | 61 | 62 |
| 1982* | 154·5 | 151·1 | 98 | 61 | 62 |
| 1983* | 167·5 | 160·1 | 96 | 61 | 61 |
| † | 164·7 | 155·6 | 94 | 61 | 60 |
| 1984† | 178·8 | 173·9 | 97 | 61 | 62 |
| * Males aged 21 and over. | |||||
| † Males on adult rates of pay. | |||||