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Earnings

Volume 223: debated on Friday 30 April 1993

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To ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) if she will show for 1992 the percentage and number of part-time women employees earning less than £3 per hour, £3·50 per hour, £3·80 per hour, £4 per hour, £5·20 per hour and £5·40 per hour for (a) manual, (b) non-manual and (c) all women in each of (i) Scotland, (ii) each region of Scotland, (iii) Great Britain and (iv) the standard regions;(2) if she will list for part-time women employees

(a) average gross weekly earnings, (b) average weekly hours total and overtime hours and (c) average gross hourly earnings for (i) manual, (ii) non-manual and (iii) all part-time women workers in Great Britain arid the standard regions, Scotland and the regions of Scotland in 1992;

(3) if she will give for male employees (a) average gross weekly earnings, (b) average weekly hours total and overtime hours and (c) average gross hourly earnings for (i) manual, (ii) non-manual and (iii) all male employees in Great Britain and the standard regions, Scotland and the regions of Scotland in 1992;

(4) if she will give for women employees (a) average gross weekly earnings, (b) average weekly hours total and overtime hours and (c) average gross hourly earnings for

Average equivalent disposable income by household type and by quintile groups Using the McClements equivalence scale re-scaled so that a household of one adult = 1

£ per year

Quinlile groups of households ranked by equivalised disposable income

Household type

Bottom

2nd

3rd

4th

Top

All households

1979
One adult with children1,0811,6552,2112,8754,7001,922
Two adults with one child1,1481,7152,2232,8654,3962,611
Two adults with two children1,2201,7042,2302,8944,6662,489
Two adults with three or more children1,1581,7082,1832,8764,4402,018
Other households with children1,2401,7152,2362,8914,1732,489
1987
One adult with children2,2883,2134,3726,08810,7393,285
Two adults with one child2,1963,3654,5546,20910,5645,872
Two adults with two children2,2233,3934,5426,18411,3505,488
Two adults with three or more children2,2023,3184,5466,10610,3004,295

(i) manual, (ii) non-manual and (iii) all women employees in each of Great Britain and the standard regions, Scotland and the regions of Scotland in 1992;

(5) if she will give for 1992 the percentage and number of female employees, part time and full time, earning less than (a) £3 per hour, (b) £3·50 per hour, (c) £3·80 per hour, (d) £4 per hour, (e) £5·20 per hour and (f) £5·40 per hour for (i) manual, (ii) non-manual and (iii) all females in each of Scotland as a whole, each of the regions of Scotland, Great Britain as a whole and each of the standard regions of Great Britain;

(6) if she will give for 1992 the percentage and number of employees part-time and full-time, earning less than £3 per hour, £3·50 per hour, £3·80 per hour, £4 per hour, £5·20 per hour and £5·40 per hour for (a) manual, (b) non-manual and (c) all employees in each of Scotland, each of the regions of Scotland, Great Britain as a whole and each of the standard regions;

(7) if she will give for 1992 the percentage and number of male employees earning less than £3 per hour, £3·50 per hour, £4 per hour, £5·20 per hour and £5·40 per hour for (a) manual, (b) non-manual and (c) all males in each of (i) Scotland, (ii) the regions of Scotland and (iii) Great Britain and the standard regions;

(8) if she will give for all employees (a) average gross weekly earnings, (b) average weekly hours total and overtime hours and (c) average gross hourly earnings for (i) manual, (ii) non-manual and (iii) all employees in each of Great Britain and the standard regions, Scotland and the regions of Scotland in 1992.

In view of the considerable amount of information requested I will write to the hon. Member.