The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply. The relevant table has been placed in the Library.
Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 4 February 2008:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many and what proportion of (a) all employees, (b) full-time employees and (c) part-time employees in (i) Scotland and (ii) each unitary local authority area in Scotland and the UK earned hourly rates (gross, excluding overtime) below (A) £8.05, (B) £6.05 and (C) £5.35, broken down by gender in the last period for which figures are available. I am replying in her absence. (183317)
The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) is carried out in April each year and is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. However, ASHE methodology cannot be used to provide estimates of the numbers of employees whose earnings is less than a specific amount, but can be used to provide estimates of percentage of employees in that category.
Levels of earnings are estimated from ASHE and are provided for employees on adult rates of pay, whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence. I attach a table for 2007, showing the percentage of UK, Scotland and Scotland unitary local authority area employees in the categories stated.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply. The relevant table has been placed in the Library.
Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 4 February 2008:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many and what percentage of (a) all employees, (b) full-time employees and (c) part-time employees in (i) Scotland, (ii) each of the unitary local authority areas in Scotland and (iii) the United Kingdom had weekly earnings (gross, including overtime) below (A) £301.95, (B) £226.69 and (C) £200.63 for the categories, broken down by gender. I am replying in her absence. (183938)
The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) is carried out in April each year and is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. However, ASHE methodology cannot be used to provide estimates of the numbers of employees whose earnings is less than a specific amount, but can be used to provide estimates of percentage of employees in that category.
Levels of earnings are estimated from ASHE and are provided for employees on adult rates of pay, whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence. I attach a table for 2007, showing the percentage of UK, Scotland and Scottish unitary local authority area employees in the categories stated.