To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will give details of the level of income of those people employed in the agriculture sector in the United Kingdom and each other state of the European Community in each of the years since 1979; and if he will make a statement.
Data on incomes for people employed in agriculture in each member state of the Community are not readily available. Some information on the hourly earnings of regular whole time agricultural workers is contained in the Eurostat publication "Earnings in Agriculture".
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will give details of the level of income for those people employed in the agriculture sector in Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and for the United Kingdom as a whole, for each year since 1979; and if he will make a statement.
The average weekly earnings for regular whole-time male agricultural workers aged 20 and over is given in the table.
| Agricultural workers average weekly earnings for regular whole time men (aged 20 years and over) | |||||
| Year | England | Wales | Scotland | Northern Ireland | United Kingdom |
| 1979 | —72.04— | 72.02 | 57.46 | 71.90 | |
| 1980 | —86.48— | 85.09 | 69.15 | 85.95 | |
| 1981 | 97.21 | 93.02 | 93.40 | 74.41 | 96.29 |
| 1982 | 106.99 | 97.72 | 100.32 | 80.10 | 105.44 |
| 1983 | 118.37 | 106.65 | 112.25 | 88.41 | 116.57 |
| 1984 | 124.59 | 112.31 | 116.9 | 92.62 | 122.59 |
| 1985 | 136.50 | 124.16 | 126.18 | 99.74 | 134.10 |
| 1986 | 143.50 | 123.07 | 133.43 | 106.90 | 140.80 |
| 1987 | 150.95 | 131.89 | 137.86 | 110.26 | 148.00 |
| 1988 | 158.19 | 139.01 | 146.42 | 117.94 | 155.10 |
| 1989 | 170.81 | 147.83 | 156.99 | 126.85 | 167.40 |
| 1990 | 190.23 | 161.59 | 174.39 | 134.72 | 186.10 |
| 11991 | —206.23— | 191.21 | 151.13 | 202.20 | |
| 1 Forecast. | |||||