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?
