asked the Paymaster General if he will state the estimated proportion of all part-time female workers being paid less than (i) £2, (ii) £3, (iii) £32·0 and (iv) £3·40 an hour in April 1985 and April 1986; and if he will provide the same data subdivided into (i) manual and (ii) non-manual females.

The available information comes from the new earnings survey and relates to part-time female employees on adult rates whose earnings were not affected by absence:

Great Britain
	Percentage with gross hourly earnings below
	200p	300p	320p	340p
April 1985
Part-time females
manual	44	92	94	96
non-manual	19	67	72	77
all	31	79	83	86
April 1986
Part-time females
manual	21	89	93	95
non-manual	8	61	67	72
all	14	74	79	83

The new earnings survey sample does not include all part-time employees whose earnings are below the national insurance threshold. Comparisons between years will be affected by changes in this threshold particularly at the lower levels of earnings shown in this table.