Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of relative gross median earnings from full-time employment among (1) men aged 16 to 24 and (2) women aged 16 to 24.

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

Please see the letter attached from the National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority.

The Baroness Monckton of Dallington Forest

House of Lords

London

SW1A 0PW

16 April 2025

Dear Lady Monckton,

As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what assessment has been made of relative gross median earnings from full-time employment among (1) men aged 16 to 24 and (2) women aged 16 to 24 (HL6658).

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE)[1], carried out in April each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. ASHE is based on a 1% sample of employee jobs taken from HM Revenue and Customs' Pay As You Earn (PAYE) records.

The median gross weekly earnings in April 20241, which is the latest available data from ASHE, for men aged 16-24 in full-time employment2 was £535, and for women aged 16-24 in full-time employment2 it was £512.

Yours sincerely,

Professor Sir Ian Diamond

1Estimates for 2024 are provisional.

2Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence.