To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table showing the mean, median, quartile and decile earnings for (a) manual workers in manufacturing and (b) non-manuals in the non-manufacturing private sector together with the numbers represented by each of the two categories; and in each case what was the increase in real earnings since 1979.

Information on the mean, median, quartile and decile earnings, and sample numbers, for manual workers in manufacturing, may be found in tables 54, 56, 74 and 76 of part C of the new earnings survey reports from 1979 onwards. Figures for the non-manufacturing private sector are not available.Information on the retail prices index (all items) to convert 1979 figures to 1991 prices is published in table 6.4 of the latest

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table showing the figures corresponding to table 19 of part A of the 1991 new earnings survey for manual workers in manufacturing industry and for non-manuals in the non-manufacturing private sector, together with the total numbers represented by each category.

The information available from the 1991 new earnings survey closest to that requested is given in the following table. Figures for non-manual workers in the non-manufacturing private sector are not available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table showing the mean, median, quartile and decile earnings for part-time employees, excluding those who received no pay for the survey period together with the numbers and aggregate incomes of those earning less than £54 and between £54 and £100 per week; and if he will provide corresponding figures for 1979 which likewise distinguish between part-time workers earning less than the lower earnings limit and between that limit and the ceiling for the lowest income category.

Information from the 1991 new earnings survey on the weekly earnings of part-time employees on adult rates is published in table 19 of part A of the survey report, a copy of which is in the Library. These figures relate to (a) all employees, and (b) employees whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence. Figures excluding employees who received no pay for the survey period are not available, except for mean (average) earnings, which were as follows in April 1991 (£ per week).

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether, further to table 12 of part A of the 1991 new earnings survey, he will publish a table showing the mean, median, quartile and decile earnings for (a) manual workers in manufacturing and (b) non-manuals in the non-manufacturing private sector in the Greater London sub-region and in the west midlands region, together with the numbers represented by each category in each region.

Information on the mean earnings, and sample numbers, for manual workers in manufacturing, for Greater London and for the west midlands, may be found in tables 118 and 120 of part E of the new earnings survey reports from 1979 onwards. There is no available information for median, quartile and decile earnings for manufacturing on a regional basis. Figures for the mean, median, quartile and decile earnings for non-manuals, in the non-manufacturing private sector, are not available. Copies of the publications are available in the Library.