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Treasury;Office for National Statistics

Answer

Mr. Moore: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the average weekly earnings (a) including and (b) excluding overtime are for full-time workers in (i) Scotland, (ii) each of the unitary local authority areas in Scotland and (iii) Great Britain for (A) all manual, (B) all non-manual, (C) all workers, (D) male manual, (E) male non-manual, (F) all male workers, (G) female manual, (H) female non-manual and (I) all female workers. [116060] John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply. Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Moore, dated 5 June 2003: As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question on the average weekly earnings for workers in Great Britain, Scotland and the unitary authorities in Scotland. (116060) I have arranged for the data requested to be placed in the House of Commons Library. The information provided shows average weekly earnings including and excluding overtime based on the 2002 New Earnings Survey (NES), the latest survey for which data are available. The release of NES data is restricted to figures that are derived from a sufficiently large sample of employees to produce an acceptable level of accuracy. I have provided the available data for Great Britain, Scotland and the unitary authorities in Scotland only for those areas where the samples are large enough.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

116060; 406 c515-7W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Women Income Pay Manual workers Men Scotland Average earnings White-collar workers

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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