To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the percentage of (a) female part-time workers, (b) male part-time workers, (c) female full-time workers, (d) male full-time workers, (e) all full-time workers, (f) all part-time workers and (g) all workers in (i) Scotland, (ii) Great Britain and (iii) each Scottish region, with hourly earnings of less than £3·40 an hour, excluding overtime; and if he will provide figures for the number of employees this percentage represents in each category in Scotland.

The percentages requested, which are available from the 1991 new earnings survey, are given in the following table.It is broadly estimated, from the new earnings survey and other sources, that around 0·4 million employees in Scotland earned less than £3·40 per hour in April 1991, of whom two thirds were women and one half were part-timers.