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1 There is a long description about it but that is the idea.
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3 Q. No, no, I need not trouble you with that. Thank you very
4 much.
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6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Ms. Mead, if you look at G1 again, the
7 abstract, as it were, of various rates, do you know whether
8 the New Earnings Survey, April 1987, refers to the date of
9 publication or to the figures, because my recollection is
10 that they are looking back something like a year in the New
11 Earnings Survey. So if, for instance, I bought the current
12 one in the middle of 1995, it would be the rates for the
13 year up to April 1994, or something like that?
14 A. I think that is quite likely, yes.
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16 Q. So, do you know what the "April 1987" refers to; whether it
17 refers to publication or the year in relation to which
18 enquiries were made?
19 A. I am sure that that -- fairly sure that is the date of
20 publication. I think that is what we would have put on to
21 the document in that way. So, that would be the date it
22 was published.
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24 Q. So they may be what people were earning in the year up to
25 April 1986?
26 A. Quite possibly, yes.
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28 Q. It could be that, yes.
29 A. Yes, we would really take it at face value from the
30 date that was the date of publication, I believe. Should
31 I check that?
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33 Q. I think it would help me to know definitely whether the
34 figures there -- you may be cross-examined about it, of
35 course, and particularly the McDonald's figures -- where it
36 says "New earnings survey" the figures are what people were
37 earning in the year ending April 1987 rather than that
38 being the date on the cover of the survey itself?
39 A. Yes, certainly.
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41 Q. And whether the figures which you have taken for McDonald's
42 purport to be for the same year or a later year?
43 A. Yes. Right, I will check as best I can.
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45 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Are you ready to start now?
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47 MS. STEEL: I mean, we could but we would rather sort
48 everything out.
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I will give you a choice. If you want, you
51 can go on now with parts of your cross-examination which
52 are not affected by anything new or any elaboration you
53 have heard, or we can break off now and resume at
54 2 o'clock.
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56 MS. STEEL: I think we would prefer to put everything in order
57 bearing in mind the new documents. Virtually all of the
58 important evidence that Ms. Mead has given is the new
59 documents.
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