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Mr. Maude : The 1991 Treasury-stock exchange survey showed that, of the adult population in Great Britain who also owned other shares : 9 per cent. owned privatisation issues ; 4 per cent. owned Abbey National shares ; and 2 per cent. owned Trustee Savings Bank shares. Figures for combinations of holding in privatisation issues, Abbey National shares, and Trustee Savings Bank shares, by adults owning other shares are not available.
TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Fraud
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will introduce legislation to require auditors of public limited companies to report material fraud discovered by them to his Department.
Mr. Redwood : All auditors should apply the guidance in the auditing guideline issued in February 1990 on the auditor's responsibility in relation to fraud, other irregularities and errors. If an auditor does not apply the guidance in any particular case, he must be prepared to explain why he has failed to do so. The guideline makes it clear that where the auditor is aware of matters of concern and does not have confidence that they will be properly dealt with by management, he should, if he considers that disclosure should be made in the public interest, disclose the matters to the appropriate authorities, which may include my Department.
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list the statutory provisions relating to duties on an auditor to detect and report material fraud.
Mr. Redwood : Case law has established that where auditors suspect significant fraud or other serious misconduct, the public interest in disclosing their
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suspicions to the appropriate authorities outweighs any obligation of confidence they owe unless they act maliciously. There is, however, no general legal duty to disclose. Legislation passed in 1986-87 applying to the regulated sectors--banks, building societies, insurance and investment businesses--has clearly removed any legal obstacle there was to auditors reporting relevant matters to the regulators. So far as insurance and investment businesses are concerned, the legislation gives the Secretary of State power, if it appears to him that auditors are not subject to satisfactory rules or guidance issued by a professional body specifying when they should notify him of relevant matters, to make rules imposing a duty on auditors to disclose in the circumstances he specifies. The Treasury has broadly similar powers in respect of auditors of banks and building societies as regards provision of information to the Bank of England and the Building Societies Commission. So far we have not thought it necessary to make rules in place of the professional bodies' guidance but we keep the matter under review. In some cases in the public sector the auditor has a statutory responsibility to report certain matters arising from the audit, including significant fraud or other irregularities, to a third party such as a sponsoring department.Company Directors (Remuneration)
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will introduce legislation under which shareholders would be specifically required to fix director remuneration.
Mr. Redwood : Directors' remuneration for executive services involves the negotiation of detailed contracts. The body of shareholders of most public companies cannot easily perform this function which is usually best undertaken by the company's board of directors. In carrying out this function the directors must have regard to their legal duties to the company, the requirements of the Companies Act 1985 and the fact that they will in any case be held to account by the shareholders. Shareholders have a right to inspect director's contracts and to dismiss directors if they do not approve of their action.
Small Companies
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what proposals he has to lighten the annual accounting and auditing burdens on small companies.
Mr. Redwood : I refer to the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Faversham (Mr. Moate) on 21 January 1992, Official Report, column 131 . The Government remain committed to minimising burdens on business. I shall soon announce a new programme of work under the Government's deregulation initiative.
Corporate Governance
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will launch an independent investigation into corporate governance in Britain.
Mr. Redwood : No. An independent investigation is being carried out by the Cadbury committee on the financial aspects of corporate governance. I welcome the
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interests of this committee and other bodies in various aspects of corporate governance as this ensures a well-informed and lively public debate.Company Accounts
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he has any plans to propose legislation under which in their annual accounts companies would be required to show the turnover generated by products and services more than five years old and less than five years old.
Directors' Salaries
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will propose legislation under which employees would have the right to vet directors' salaries.
Mr. Redwood : I see no reason for employees to be given a right to vet directors' salaries.
Manufactured Goods
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will publish a table showing the share of British manufactured exports and of British manufactured imports going to and coming from, and the balance of impact on trade with, (a) Germany, (b) the United States of America, and (c) France, for each year since 1970.
Mr. Sainsbury : Figures for before 1975 can be obtained only at disproportionate cost. The available information is contained in the tables.
1. The available information, for the years since 1975, is given in the following table. Manufactures are defined as sections 5 to 8 of the Standard International Trade Classification.
United Kingdom trade in manufactures
|Exports |Imports |Crude balance
£ billion |£ billion |£ billion
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World
1975 |16.5 |12.8 |3.7
1976 |21.3 |16.9 |4.4
1977 |27.2 |21.7 |5.5
1978 |30.1 |26.1 |4.0
1979 |33.1 |31.4 |1.7
1980 |34.8 |31.8 |3.0
1981 |34.9 |32.0 |2.9
1982 |37.3 |37.1 |0.2
1983 |40.1 |44.9 |-4.9
1984 |46.7 |53.0 |-6.3
1985 |52.5 |58.3 |-5.8
1986 |54.6 |62.8 |-8.2
1987 |61.0 |71.0 |-10.0
1988 |66.2 |83.5 |-17.3
1989 |76.4 |96.0 |-19.6
1990 |84.2 |98.2 |-13.9
United Kingdom
share of total
|Exports |Imports |Crude |Exports |Imports
|£ billion|£ billion|balance |per cent.|per cent.
|£ billion
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Germany
1975 |1.0 |1.8 |-0.7 |6.3 |13.9
1976 |1.5 |2.5 |-1.1 |6.9 |14.9
1977 |1.9 |3.3 |-1.4 |7.1 |15.3
1978 |2.3 |4.2 |-1.9 |7.5 |16.0
1979 |2.8 |5.4 |-2.6 |8.6 |17.2
1980 |3.2 |5.2 |-2.0 |9.2 |16.4
1981 |3.2 |5.4 |-2.2 |9.2 |16.9
1982 |3.5 |6.9 |-3.4 |9.2 |18.5
1983 |4.0 |9.0 |-5.0 |9.9 |20.0
1984 |4.9 |10.2 |-5.2 |10.6 |19.2
1985 |5.8 |11.8 |-6.0 |11.0 |20.2
1986 |6.4 |13.3 |-6.8 |11.8 |21.1
1987 |7.3 |14.9 |-7.6 |12.0 |21.0
1988 |8.0 |16.7 |-8.8 |12.0 |20.0
1989 |9.3 |19.1 |-9.7 |12.2 |19.8
1990 |11.0 |18.8 |-7.8 |13.1 |19.2
United States of America
1975 |1.5 |1.7 |-0.2 |8.9 |13.3
1976 |2.0 |2.2 |-0.2 |9.6 |13.2
1977 |2.5 |2.7 |-0.3 |9.0 |12.5
1978 |2.8 |3.0 |-0.2 |9.5 |11.6
1979 |3.1 |3.6 |-0.5 |9.3 |11.5
1980 |3.3 |4.7 |-1.4 |9.3 |14.7
1981 |3.5 |4.6 |-1.1 |10.1 |14.5
1982 |3.8 |5.1 |-1.3 |10.2 |13.7
1983 |5.0 |6.0 |-1.0 |12.6 |13.3
1984 |6.5 |7.7 |-1.2 |13.9 |14.6
1985 |8.1 |8.4 |-0.3 |15.3 |14.3
1986 |8.2 |7.0 |1.1 |15.0 |11.2
1987 |8.7 |7.8 |0.9 |14.3 |11.0
1988 |8.9 |9.3 |-0.4 |13.5 |11.1
1989 |10.2 |11.9 |-1.6 |13.4 |12.4
1990 |10.6 |12.6 |-2.0 |12.6 |12.9
France
1975 |0.9 |1.1 |-0.2 |5.7 |8.5
1976 |1.4 |1.5 |-0.1 |6.4 |8.8
1977 |1.6 |1.9 |-0.3 |6.0 |8.9
1978 |1.9 |2.4 |-0.5 |6.2 |9.2
1979 |2.3 |3.0 |-0.7 |7.0 |9.7
1980 |2.5 |3.0 |-0.4 |7.3 |9.4
1981 |2.5 |3.1 |-0.6 |7.1 |9.5
1982 |2.8 |3.4 |-0.5 |7.6 |9.1
1983 |2.9 |4.0 |-1.1 |7.3 |8.9
1984 |3.4 |4.6 |-1.2 |7.3 |8.6
1985 |3.9 |5.1 |-1.2 |7.4 |8.7
1986 |4.2 |5.7 |-1.5 |7.7 |9.1
1987 |5.4 |6.5 |-1.2 |8.8 |9.2
1988 |6.3 |7.5 |-1.2 |9.5 |8.9
1989 |7.7 |8.7 |-1.0 |10.0 |9.0
1990 |8.8 |9.5 |-0.7 |10.4 |9.7
Note: Includes the former German Democratic Republic throughout.
Source: "Overseas Trade Statistics of the United Kingdom".
Auditors
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will ask the Office of Fair Trading to investigate the tendering for audits in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Redwood : I have no plans to do so, but any information on this matter would be welcomed by the Office of Fair Trading.
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Disability
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he has plans to propose legislation under which in their annual report, public limited companies would be required to state the number of employees who are registered as disabled.
Mr. Redwood : No. However, schedule 7 to the Companies Act 1985 requires companies employing more than an average of 250 people in each week of the financial year to include in the directors' report a statement describing the policy they have applied during the financial year for the employment, training, career development and promotion of disabled persons.
Low Earnings
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he has plans to propose legislation under which companies in their annual report would be required to publish the number of adult employees earning less than £9,000 per annum.
Mr. Redwood : No. The primary purpose of a company's annual report and accounts is to inform shareholders and creditors about its financial position. It would be unreasonably burdensome to require the inclusion of the information of the type suggested.
Bankers' Fees
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he has plans to propose legislation under which fees paid to bankers for mergers and acquisition advice would be specifically disclosed in the notes to the annual accounts.
Company Accounts
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he has plans to propose legislation under which companies would be required to publish their plans and budgets in the accounts.
Motor Cars
Mr. Tebbit : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list the non-tariff barriers which restrain the export within the European Community of motor cars built in the United Kingdom by Japanese- owned companies.
Mr. Leigh : The treaty of Rome guarantees the right of goods manufactured within the Community to circulate freely between member states. The agreement concluded last July between the Community and Japan on trade in cars confirmed that right in respect of cars manufactured by Japanese-owned plants in EC countries. It also committed the Community to agree by the end of 1992 a type-approval regime setting harmonised technical standards for whole vehicle construction, thus removing the potential threat of national standards being used as a non-tariff barrier.
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Privatisations
Mr. Page : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list for the five years prior to privatisation the loss or profit of Girobank ; and if he will list any grants or loans made over the same period.
Mr. Redwood : Girobank was sold by the Post Office to the Alliance and Leicester building society on 2 July 1990. Profit, and loans made to it, in the five years before this were as follows :
£ million Year to end March |1986 |1987 |1988 |1989 |1990 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Operating profit |19.4 |23.1 |23.5 |21.6 |30.2 Subordinated loan capital from the PO |19.0 |19.0 |29.0 |39.0 |39.0 Source: Girobank PLC Report and Accounts 1989-90.
Operating profit is on an historical cost basis before tax and before interest payable on subordinated loan capital.
European Single Market
Mr. Evennett : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1) what information he has concerning the number of single market measures yet to be implemented by each EC member country ; and if he will make a statement ;
(2) what discussions he has had with his EC counterparts about the possibility of deleting measures which have yet to be implemented from the EC single market programme ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Sainsbury : The most recent European Commission report shows that of the 137 measures in the White Paper programme for completion of the single market which should have been implemented up to 10 December 1991, the following were, by member state, outstanding :
|Number
-----------------------------
Denmark |9
France |15
United Kingdom |19
Portugal |23
Greece |25
Spain |28
Germany |31
Netherlands |35
Ireland |35
Belgium |38
Luxembourg |43
Italy |65
Implementation of the single market programme is discussed regularly at meetings of the Internal Market Council. We continue to encourage proper implementation by all member states of measures already agreed, and want agreement on the outstanding White Paper proposals provided that they are genuinely necessary to complete the single market.
Business Advice
Ms. Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many inquiries his 24-hour notice for businesses advice on the single European market has received from businesses in Stoke-on-Trent, North since its inception.
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Mr. Sainsbury : Calls to the single market hotline are not recorded on a geographic basis. I refer the hon. Lady to my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Norwich, North (Mr. Thompson) on 24 January 1992, Official Report, column 401.Telephone Imports
Mr. Alex Carlile : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on the penetration of the United Kingdom retail telephone industry of imports from the far east, and upon their effect on the telephone manufacturing industry in the United Kingdom ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Redwood [holding answer 20 January 1992] : A full measure of penetration into the United Kingdom retail telephone market of imports from the far east cannot be obtained without disproportionate cost. The most recent figures available from the Central Statistical Office show that telephone handsets worth £74 million were imported from the far east in the first 10 months of 1991.
The United Kingdom has an open telecommunications equipment market. The consumer has benefited considerably from this and can now choose from more than 500 approved items of retail terminal equipment. United Kingdom equipment suppliers themselves take advantage of low costs of manufacture in the far east. Some major suppliers import the more basic handsets to complement their own manufacture of higher value, more sophisticated, telephones and systems while others design in the United Kingdom and source from manufacturing plants abroad.
Indonesia
Mr. Alton : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list the turnover in trade between Britain and Indonesia for each year since 1975.
Mr. Sainsbury [holding answer 24 January 1992] : The information is in the table.
United Kingdom trade with Indonesia
|Exports |Imports
|£ million|£ million
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1975 |62.2 |15.1
1976 |80.8 |22.5
1977 |86.7 |28.8
1978 |83.6 |33.4
1979 |75.8 |56.1
1980 |112.2 |57.0
1981 |139.2 |73.8
1982 |212.1 |90.7
1983 |193.6 |169.4
1984 |186.7 |181.5
1985 |175.3 |156.5
1986 |196.5 |141.2
1987 |236.0 |144.8
1988 |203.3 |233.7
1989 |183.9 |273.1
1990 |198.0 |327.9
Source: "Overseas Trade Statistics of
the United Kingdom".
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EMPLOYMENT
Labour Statistics
Mr. Cox : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what are the numbers of people now registered as unemployed in the Greater London area who have been out of work for periods of up to three months, six months, nine months, one year, two years, three years or longer.
Mr. Jackson : The latest available information, relating to October 1991, is contained in the table and can also be obtained from the NOMIS database system in the Library.
Claimant unemployment by duration in Greater London October 1991<1> Duration of |Number of unemployment |unemployed ----------------------------------------- Up to 3 months |114,667 3 to 6 months |71,667 6 to 9 months |55,645 9 to 12 months |32,987 1 to 2 years |54,748 2 to 3 years |14,458 Over 3 years |22,764 <1> Unemployment figures by duration are produced quarterly and are on the unadjusted basis.
Employment Training
Mr. Cox : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the number of people who had completed an employment training scheme course during the year ended December 1991 ; and how many found employment at the end of the course.
Mr. Jackson : In Great Britain in the year to March 1991, the latest date for which information is available, 48 per cent. of leavers had completed their agreed training and 33 per cent. of all leavers were on full-time, part-time or self-employment three months after leaving employment training. Absolute numbers are not available because not all trainees respond to the follow-up questionnaire.
Mr. Cox : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what percentage of those people who have completed an employment training scheme course have obtained a work qualification at the end of the course.
Mr. Jackson : In the year to March 1991, the latest period for which information is available, 42 per cent. of employment training trainees completing their agreed training in Great Britain successfully obtained a qualification or a credit towards one.
Environmental Training
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on progress made with the pilot programme established in 1990 by the Training Agency to develop centres of excellence for environmental training ; what resources have been committed to this programme ; and what plans he has to extend the national environmental training programme.
Mr. Jackson : The centres of excellence were piloted between January 1990 and March 1991 at a cost of £435,000. A review at the end of 1990 concluded that they had a useful potential role working with local training and enterprise councils to promote and develop environmental training and services.
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Responsibility for the centres has now passed to TECs, although money is this year available to TECs to test new approaches to environmental training. The Welsh Centre of Excellence, along with a number of other projects, has received funding in this way.National Training Federation
Mr. Paice : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many meetings have taken place between his officials and representatives of the National Training Federation since the meeting on 9 September 1991 between the Under-Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Wantage (Mr. Jackson), and representatives of the federation accompanied by the hon. Member for Cambridgeshire, South-East.
Mr. Jackson : Officials have met representatives of the National Training Federation on five occasions since the meeting on 9 September.
Part-time Workers
Mr. Wallace : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what information he has on the proportion of male employees in Great Britain who were part-time.
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Mr. Jackson : In September 1991, the latest date for which information is available, 9 per cent. of male employees were working part time in Great Britain.
Mr. Wallace : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) if he will estimate the percentage of all women part-time workers in Great Britain earning less than (a) £2.50 per hour, (b) £3 per hour, (c) £3.60 per hour, (d) £4 per hour, (e) £4.50 per hour and (f) £5 per hour ;
(2) if he will estimate the percentage of part-time non-manual workers in Great Britain earning less than (a) £2.50 per hour, (b) £3 per hour, (c) £3.60 per hour, (d) £4 per hour, (e) £4.50 per hour and (f) £5 per hour ;
(3) if he will estimate the percentage of women part-time manual workers in Great Britain earning less than (a) £2.50 per hour, (b) £3 per hour, (c) £3.60 per hour, (d) £4 per hour, (e) £4.50 per hour and (f) £5 per hour.
Mr. Forth : The information available from the 1991 new earnings survey closest to that requested is given in the table.
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Percentages of part-time women workers on adult rates whose earnings were unaffected by absence:
Great Britain, 1991 New Earnings Survey.
Earning less than £ per hour
Category |£2.50 |£3.00 |£3.60 |£4.00 |£4.50 |£4.80 |£5.40
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All part-time women |5.3 |19.9 |45.1 |58.3 |69.4 |74.7 |81.8
Part-time non-manual women |3.3 |13.3 |34.2 |45.6 |58.1 |64.5 |73.7
Part-time manual women |8.7 |31.3 |63.7 |80.1 |88.9 |92.2 |95.6
Training Organisations
Mr. Paice : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what contacts have been established between the G10 group of TEC chief executives and the National Training Federation.
Mr. Jackson : The group of 10 TEC chairmen and the network of TEC chief executives are establishing contacts with a number of organisations. The nature of these contacts is a matter for them.
Nuclear Safety
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what consultations he has had with the chief inspector of the nuclear installations inspectorate concerning the date of completion of consideration of the long-term safety reviews of Sizewell A and Dungeness A nuclear power stations.
Mr. Forth : None. The activities of Health and Safety Executive's nuclear installations inspectorate are a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy.
Women Workers
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list for part-time women workers (a) average gross weekly earnings, (b) average weekly hours total and overtime and (c) average gross hourly earnings for (i) manual, (ii) non-manual and (iii) all part-time women workers in (1) Great Britain, (2) Scotland and (3) each region in Scotland.
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Mr. Forth [holding answer 24 January 1992] : The information available from the 1991 new earnings survey is given in the tables.
Average gross weekly and hourly earnings and hours of part
time
manual women on adult rates whose pay was unaffected by
absence
April 1991
Average gross Average gross
|Weekly |Hourly |Total |Overtime
|earnings|earnings|hours |hours
|(£) |(£)
---------------------------------------------------------------
Borders |<1>- |- |- |-
Central |- |- |- |-
Dumfries/Galloway |- |- |- |-
Fife |- |3.30 |18.5 |0.6
Grampian |- |3.35 |17.6 |0.8
Highland |- |- |- |-
Lothian |67.8 |3.65 |18.9 |0.9
Strathclyde |70.1 |3.48 |20.7 |0.9
Tayside |- |3.37 |17.4 |0.9
Islands |- |- |- |-
Highlands/Islands |- |- |- |-
Scotland |66.3 |3.44 |19.4 |0.8
Great Britain |67.6 |3.51 |19.7 |1.0
Source: New Earnings Survey.
<1>"-" denotes sampling error too large or sample size too
small for reliable estimates.
Note: It is estimated that around one fifth of part-time women
employees were not covered by the NES because their gross
weekly earnings were below the PAYE threshold.
Average gross weekly and hourly earnings and hours of part time non-manual women on adult rates whose pay was unaffected by absence April 1991
Average gross Average gross
Weekly earnings Hourly earnings Total hours Overtime hours (£) (£)
Borders -- -- -- --
Central -- -- -- --
Dumfries/Galloway -- -- -- --
Fife -- -- -- --
Grampian -- -- -- --
Highland -- -- -- --
Lothian 107.5 -- -- --
Strathclyde 100.6 5.02 20.5 1.0
Tayside -- -- -- --
Islands -- -- -- --
Highlands/Islands -- -- -- --
Scotland 100.9 5.01 20.3 1.0
Great Britain 95.0 4.93 19.5 0.9
Source : New Earnings Survey.
"--" denotes sampling error too large or sample size too small for reliable estimates.
Note : It is estimated that around one fifth of part-time women employees were not covered by the NES because their gross weekly earnings were below the PAYE threshold.
Average gross weekly and hourly earnings and hours of all part
time
women on adult rates whose pay was unaffected by
absence
April 1991
Average gross Average gross
|Weekly |Hourly |Total |Overtime
|earnings|earnings|hours |hours
|(£) |(£)
---------------------------------------------------------------
Borders |<1>- |- |- |-
Central |- |- |- |-
Dumfries/Galloway |- |- |- |-
Fife |- |4.02 |19.4 |1.1
Grampian |81.1 |4.30 |18.7 |0.9
Highland |- |- |- |-
Lothian |90.4 |4.47 |20.1 |1.1
Strathclyde |88.5 |4.39 |20.6 |1.0
Tayside |76.9 |4.06 |18.5 |0.9
Islands |- |- |- |-
Highlands/Islands |- |- |- |-
Scotland |86.1 |4.36 |19.9 |0.9
Great Britain |84.9 |4.41 |19.6 |1.0
Source: New Earnings Survey.
<1>"-" denotes sampling error too large or sample size too
small for reliable estimates.
Note: It is estimated that around one fifth of part-time women
employees were not covered by the NES because their gross
weekly earnings were below the PAYE threshold.
WALES
A48, Castleton
Mr. Grist : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his answer of 10 December, Official Report, column 406, on what dates and for how many days the unused carriageway between the two A48 (M) carriageways at Castleton has been used ; what was the nature and cost of the larger contract of which the unused carriageway formed part ; who decided that the unused carriageway should be provided ; and if he will make a statement.
Sir Wyn Roberts : The presently unused length of carriageway at Castleton was in use for 18 days between 26 July 1989 and 12 August 1989 inclusive. It was provided and used as a temporary diversion for the A48M Castleton-St. Mellons carriageway strengthening work which cost £1.8 million. Its construction was approved by the director of highways as an alternative to major traffic disruption.
Baltic States
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will discuss with the chairman of the Welsh development agency the ways in which that agency can help establish trade links between Wales and the three Baltic states.
Farmworkers
Dr. David Clark : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give the numbers of (a) farmers and (b) farmworkers employed in each county in Wales in June 1991.
Mr. David Hunt : The figures are shown in the table :
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