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Mr. Allen
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the proportions of female part-time workers on adult rates, in April, with hourly earnings of less than (a) £3·80, (b) £5·00 and (c) £5·20; and if he will provide these figures by standard economic region, for Great Britain, and for Northern Ireland.
Mr. Forth
The information available from the 1991 new earnings survey closest to that requested is given in the table.
| Percentage of part·time female employees on adult rates of pay whose pay was unaffected by absence, with hourly earnings below the following specified amounts. | |||
| April 1991 | |||
| £ | £ | £ | |
| 3·80 | 4·80 | 5·40 | |
| Greater London | 23·5 | 53·3 | 65·1 |
| South East | 38·1 | 64·7 | 74·3 |
| East Anglia | 53·7 | 76·5 | 83·6 |
| South West | 57·4 | 77·2 | 84·4 |
| West Midlands | 58·5 | 78·8 | 84·0 |
| East Midlands | 59·2 | 79·5 | 86·3 |
| Yorks and Humberside | 59·6 | 79·7 | 85·4 |
| North West | 56·8 | 79·4 | 85·2 |
| Northern | 63·0 | 81·5 | 88·2 |
| Wales | 62·7 | 79·4 | 85·7 |
| Scotland | 54·4 | 76·6 | 82·1 |
| Great Britain | 52·3 | 74·7 | 81·8 |
| 3·80 | 5·00 | 5·50 | |
| Northern Ireland | 60·4 | 77·8 | 82·0 |
Source: New Earnings Survey, Great Britain and Northern Ireland.