Minimum Wage

Mr. Crausby
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many (a) female and (b) male employees in the Bolton North East constituency receive wages at the national minimum rate.

Angela E. Smith
This information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Jil Matheson, dated September 2009:

As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many (a) female and (b) male employees in the Bolton North East constituency receive wages at the national minimum rate. (291470)

Estimates for the number of jobs paid at the national minimum wage are not available from the Office for National Statistics. Estimates for the number of employee jobs paid below the national wage are available, but only for all employee jobs by Government Office Region, which is the lowest geographical breakdown published by ONS. These estimates exclude the self employed. I attach a table showing the number of all employee jobs earning less than the national minimum wage for the North West Government Office Region.

A guide to measuring low pay and associated articles can be found on the National Statistics website at:

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=5837

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|Government Office Region                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |Thousand|Percentage|
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|North West (including Merseyside)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |*27     |*1.0|
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|Guide to Quality:The Coefficient of Variation (CV) indicates the quality of a figure, the smaller the CV value the higher the quality. The true value is likely to lie within +/- twice the CV—for example, for an average of 200 with a CV of 5 per cent., we would expect the population total to be within the range 180-220Key:CV<=5 per cent.* CV>5 per cent. and <=10 per cent.** CV>10 per cent. and <=20 per cent.Source:Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), Office for National Statistics. 2008|        ||
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