Day 134 - 13 Jun 95 - Page 53


     
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     2   MR. MORRIS:  I am nearly finished the questions I was going to
     3        ask.
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     5   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I suggest is -- do you have a lot to
     6        ask, Ms. Steel?
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     8   MS. STEEL:  I have quite a few, yes.
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    10   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Why do you not ask some of yours and
    11        Mr. Morris can go through his notes and keep half an ear on
    12        the questions that you are asking, but highlight what he
    13        has to ask, if anything, himself.
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    15   MS. STEEL:  I was just trying to find the pages to refer to,
    16        because I wanted to ask -----
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    18   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I will have the five-minute break now while
    19        you do that and Mr. Morris can do a bit of checking and
    20        then we will resume.
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    22                          (Short Adjournment)
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    24   MR. MORRIS:  Just a couple of things:  There is one seemingly
    25        quite important page in the New Earnings Survey 1987 which
    26        has a summary.  It was page D10 which, as far as I can see,
    27        in 1987 has the average gross weekly earnings for all
    28        non-manual occupations as £263.90, for all manual
    29        occupations £182 and averaged out at all occupations
    30        £219.40.  It has the average hourly earnings, all
    31        non-manual £6.79.9; all manual occupations £4.16.5 and all
    32        occupations £5.27.3 an hour.  It then has weekly hours,
    33        average hours worked, which I will not go into.  It looks
    34        like they average between 38 to 44 hours per week and, with
    35        overtime time hours, something between one and five and a
    36        half per week.  I have not had a chance to read through the
    37        whole survey but that seems to be a useful page.
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    39   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Right.  What I am going to do, until such
    40        time as we see whether anything more is made of the New
    41        Earnings Survey, I am going to put that immediately behind
    42        G1, not because I suggest that is the best place for it to
    43        stay, although that may be so, but simply because that is
    44        behind the New Earnings Survey reference.
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    46   MR. MORRIS:  Just before Helen comes back, just one more
    47        question on the Crew Opinion Survey:  Although it was
    48        dated, I think it was, June 1994, at the bottom bit, if you
    49        remember -- you do not have to look at it now -- it was not
    50        all done in one day, was it, nationally?  It was something 
    51        that stores were asked to do that within a certain time. 
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    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It was received -- it has June 94 at the top
    54         -- from the consultant in June 1994 and shipped, whatever
    55        that may mean, July 1994.  Are you asking if Ms. Mead knows
    56        over what period the survey was carried out?
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    58   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  I mean how many weeks or months was it.
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    60   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you know what period it was?

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