Manual Workers

Mr. Dewar
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what are the average gross hourly earnings in Scotland for full-time manual workers, full-time non-manual workers, part-time manual workers and part-time non-manual workers at the latest date for which figures are available.

Mr. Rifkind
The latest available information, for April 1989, is provided in the table:--------------------------------
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|Full-time manual employees    |
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|Full-time non·manual employees|
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|Part-time manual employees    |
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|Part-time non-manual employees|
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Source: New Earnings Survey April 1989.