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38.
Mr. Hardy
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what were the average sums paid in income tax and in national insurance contributions in 1989; and the comparable figures for 1979.
Mr. Lilley
The information is as follows:
| Amount paid in income tax and national insurance contributions on average earnings | ||
| Amount paid in income tax1 and NIC on average earnings2 | Percentage of average earnings2 paid in income tax earnings and NIC | |
| 1978–79 | ||
| Single person | 29.25 | 31.5 |
| Married man | 25.76 | 27.8 |
| 1989–903 | ||
| Single person | 80.31 | 28.7 |
| Married man | 72.67 | 26.0 |
| 1 Assuming that the only allowances available against income tax are the single persons and married man's/married couple's allowances as appropriate. | ||
| 2 Average earnings are for full time adult males in all occupations. In 1978–79 they were £92.8 per week; in 1989–90 they are assumed to be £280.0 per week in line with the assumptions in paragraph | ||
3.02 of the 1989 Autumn Statement.
3 Figures are derived from the financial year average NIC Class 1 paid in 1989–90.