Incomes Policy Will Hit Poorer Regions

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from a Nottingham reader In a paper at the annual conference of the Institute of British Geographers, two geographers, Mr, BE. Coates, of Sheffield University, and Mr. EM. Rawstron, of Queen Mary College, presented a paper which said that the Government's incomes would perpetuate present regional imbalance. Presented on January 5th, the paper said: "If its policy of limiting the overall annual rate of increase in wages and salaries to a selected figure of, say 3M, was applied evenly throughout the country, it would tend to confirm the and perpetuate the present regional imbalance in personal incomeSeeee" The paper went on to say that only a greater degree of geographical equality” of income would rectify the imbalance. The authors pointed out that the highest wages and salaries were to be found in the area stretching from Derbyshire, Leicestershire and the West Midlands, to Essex and Surrey. “Lowest wages are still to.be found in the more isolated parts of England and Wales, in much of Scotland and all of Northern Ireland; they declared, "The striking change in England on the 1959-60 figures was the building up of an area of high average incomes between London and the Midlands. The above average rate of growth of incomes in the South-East and parts of the Midlands in the 1950s, compared with the rest of the UeKes was because of sustained pressure on the labour force...." the paper pointed out.