Equal Pay

Women and Equalities written question – answered at on 14 December 2017.

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Photo of Peter Bone Peter Bone Conservative, Wellingborough

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to Answer of 23 November 2017 to Question 902535, on Equal Pay, what recent assessment she has made of the effect of requiring all larger employers to publish their gender pay gap on reducing that pay gap.

Photo of Anne Milton Anne Milton Minister of State (Education), Minister for Women

The government is determined to close the gender pay gap, which is currently at 18.4%. A full assessment was published that set out the expected impact of new regulations which introduced mandatory gender pay gap reporting:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2016/245/pdfs/ukia_20160245_en.pdf.

The department recently published research on the action larger employers are taking to close the gender pay gaps within their organisations:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gender-pay-gap-employers-action-and-understanding.

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