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Treasury;Office for National Statistics

Answer

Mrs. Brinton: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the wards in (a) Peterborough and (b) Cambridge ranked by average earnings. [109533] Miss Melanie Johnson: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Director of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to reply. Letter from John Kidgell to Mrs. Helen Brinton, dated 14 February 2000: The Director of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has been asked to reply to your parliamentary question regarding the average earnings of the wards in Peterborough and Cambridge. I am replying in Dr Holt's absence. The New Earnings Survey (NES) can only provide ward level earnings data based on where people work, rather than where they live. Additionally we can only provide data where we have a sufficiently large sample of employees, and have an acceptable level of accuracy. I have provided the only available data in the table below. These are based on the 1999 NES, the latest survey for which data are available. New earnings survey, April 1999 (GB) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. All full-time employees Average (£) Cambridge -- Trumpington 407.8 Newnham 377.4 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: Employees on adult rates, whose pay for the survey period was unaffected by absence. Gross weekly earnings (including overtime). The NES is based on a one per cent sample of employees in the PAYE system and is therefore likely to under-represent relatively low paid staff earning below the tax threshold and in particular those who work part-time.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

344 c444W; 109533

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Cambridgeshire Peterborough Average earnings Cambridge

Contains statistics

Yes