Key economic indicators

FULL-TIME AVERAGE WEEKLY EARNINGS

£pw

All workers 444.3

All male 490.5

All female 366.8

All non-manual 492.8

Female non-manual 388.8

Male non-manual 582.4

All manual 338.9

Female manual 241.8

Male manual 359.9

* Source: New Earnings Survey April 2001

Inflation and Earnings Forecasts

2002

Retail Price Index

Average 2.3

Range 1.3-4.0

Earnings, whole economy

Average 4.2

Range 3.5-6.0

* Figures are for fourth quarter of year in each case. Average of around 40 independent forecasts published by the Treasury.

Earnings and pay

% annual rise LRD average pay deals2 Whole economy1 Manufacturing1 Services1 Private sector1 Public sector1 2000

December 5.2 5.0 5.2 5.2 4.3 3.5

2001

January 4.1 3.8 4.3 4.3 3.3 3.2

February 6.7 5.2 7.3 7.5 3.0 3.2

March 4.1 5.3 3.9 4.0 4.5 3.2

April 4.8 5.2 4.6 4.7 5.5 3.2

May 4.6 4.7 4.4 4.3 5.8 3.2

June 4.8 5.0 4.6 4.7 5.3 3.2

July 4.4 4.6 4.2 4.1 5.8 3.0

August 4.3 4.7 3.9 3.9 5.9 3.2

September 4.3 4.2 4.3 4.1 5.5 3.4

October 4.3 3.9 4.3 4.0 5.6 3.7

November 3.7 2.8 3.9 3.5 5.0 3.5

December (p) 2.0 2.3 1.7 1.2 5.1 3.5

Headline rate for December3 3.3 3.0 3.3 2.9 5.2

1 Average weekly earnings in Great Britain, seasonally adjusted, as monitored by National Statistics. 2 The midpoint of pay settlements for the latest three months as monitored on the Labour Research Department's PayLine database. 3 The average of the earnings increase figures for the latest three months compared with a year earlier. (p) provisional

Retail prices

Retail price index (Jan 1987=100) % annual increase % increase excluding mortgage payments 2000

November 172.1 3.2 2.2

December 172.2 2.9 2.0

2001

January 171.1 2.7 1.8

February 172.0 2.7 1.9

March 172.2 2.3 1.9

April 173.1 1.8 2.0

May 174.2 2.1 2.4

June 174.4 1.9 2.4

July 173.3 1.6 2.2

August 174.0 2.1 2.6

September 174.6 1.7 2.3

October 174.3 1.6 2.3

November 173.6 0.9 1.8

December 173.4 0.7 1.9

2002

January 173.3 1.3 2.6

* Source: National Statistics

KEY INDICATORS

INFLATION +1.3% AVERAGE EARNINGS +2.0%