Earnings

Mr. D. E. Thomas
asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report the value of the lowest decile of male earnings in Wales as a percentage of median earnings for each year since 1970.

Mr. Booth
The following estimates are based on the New Earnings Survey. They relate to the gross weekly earnings of full-time male workers aged 21 and over in Wales whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence. They are subject to sampling errors.------------
|April 1970|
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|April 1971|
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|April 1972|
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|April 1973|
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|April 1974|
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Mrs. Bain
asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report the value of the lowest decile of male earnings in Scotland as a percentage of median earnings for each year since 1970.

Mr. Booth
The following estimates are based on the New Earnings Survey. They relate to the gross weekly earnings of full-time male workers aged 21 and over in Scotland whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence. They are subject to sampling erors.------------
|April 1970|
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|April 1971|
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|April 1972|
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|April 1973|
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|April 1974|
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