To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list, for the combined regions and islands areas of Highland, Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles (a) average earnings, (b) median earnings, (c) average hours including overtime and (d) overtime hours.

For the area in question the average gross earnings in April 1989 of all full-time employees on adult rates whose pay was not affected by absence was £209·8 per week. To obtain the precise figure of median earnings would involve disproportionate cost, but the figure for all full-time employees in the sample on adult rates lies in the range of £170 to £180. Average total weekly hours were 40·7 of which overtime was 2·9.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) if he will list, for the combined regions and islands areas of Highland, Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, Orkney, Shetland and Western Isles, the figures for female part-time workers (a) average gross weekly earnings, (b) average weekly hours, (c) average gross hourly earnings, (d) median gross hourly earnings, (e) lowest decile of gross hourly earnings and (f) highest decile of gross hourly earnings (i) in total and (ii) broken down by the standard industrial classifications;(2) if he will list, for the combined regions and islands areas of Highland, Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles, the distribution of gross hourly earnings for female part-time workers, giving the percentage of female part-time workers, with hourly earnings less than

Because of the small samples in the areas concerned, reliable information for female part-time employees is not available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list, for the combined regions and islands areas of Highland, Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles, the earnings of full-time workers on adult rates of pay broken down by (a) male manual, (b) male non-manual, (c) all males, (d) female manual, (e) female non-manual, (f) all females and (g) all workers.

The available information from the 1989 new earnings survey is as follows:

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) if he will list, for the combined regions and islands areas of Highland, Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles, the distribution of earnings for those earning under (a) £120, (b) £150, (c) 160, (d) the point below which 10 per cent. of earners fall and (e) the point which 10 per cent. of earners exceed, broken down by (i) male manual, (ii) male non-manual, (iii) all males, (iv) female manual, (v) female non-manual, (vi) all females and (vii) all workers, in total and by the standard industrial classifications;(2) if he will list, for the combined regions and islands areas of Highland, Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles

Only a limited amount of reliable information could be compiled in each case and the cost of doing so would be disproportionate.