To ask the President of the Board of Trade if she will list in domestic currency the statutory national minimum wage, or the lowest minimum wage established on the basis of legally binding sectoral or industry agreements, in each European Union state and in the United States of America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Canada; and if she will list the equivalent of each of these amounts as an hourly rate in pounds sterling (a) on the basis of current exchange rages and (b) at purchasing power parity exchange rates. [12214]

The information requested about wages is not routinely collected by my Department; all the latest figures available to me are set out in the table below.