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Mr. Vaz
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he proposes to issue a consultative paper on the recommendations of the Carnwath report.
| Increases in weekly earnings, April 1979 to April 1989 and estimates of employees in employment, March 1979 and 1989 | ||||||
| Average earnings | Median earnings | Employees in employment Thousands | ||||
| Cash | Per cent. | Cash | Per cent. | |||
| £ | £ | 1979 | 1989 | |||
| Males | ||||||
| Manufacturing | 162·8 | 160 | 142·4 | 149 | na | 3,518·8 |
| Non-manufacturing | 173·6 | 176 | 145·3 | 161 | na | 7,257·5 |
| Females | ||||||
| Manufacturing | 99·1 | 165 | 86·0 | 149 | 1,603·1 | 1,226·9 |
| Non-manufacturing | 123·6 | 191 | 107·2 | 180 | 3,902·5 | 4,635·5 |
Mr. Moynihan
[holding answer 7 December 1989]: My right hon. Friend the then Secretary of State announced the publication of the report and his intention to consult widely about it on 5 April.