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92318

	registered interest
	date	26/09/2014
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Performance Appraisal
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, how many officials in the Government Equalities Office who received the (a) exceeded, (b) met and (c) must improve performance mark under the Civil Service Employment Policy Performance Management System (i) had a disability, (ii) worked full-time and (iii) worked part-time in 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	209630
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p><strong>The table sets out the number of Government Equalities Office employees, within each performance category, who have declared a disability. </strong><strong>The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) takes seriously its obligations to collect diversity data as required by the Equality Act 2010. All staff have been asked to provide personal diversity data to be held anonymously, and we continue to encourage increased declaration by staff. As such these figures will not be fully representative of workforce diversity</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>i) </strong><strong>Disability</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>GEO</p></td><td><p>EYR Rating</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Disability</p></td><td><p><strong>Exceptional</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Good</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Must Improve</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not disclosed</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>No</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Prefer not to say</p></td><td> </td><td><p>*</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Yes</p></td><td> </td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*The disclosure of numbers where they amount to fewer than five could enable identification of individuals to whom this information relates. This would amount to a release of their personal data in breach of the Data Protection Act</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>ii)&amp;iii) Full –time/part –time </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>The table sets out the number of Government Equalities Office employees, within each performance category, who work full time or part time.</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>GEO</p></td><td><p>EYR Rating</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Part time full time</p></td><td><p><strong>Exceptional</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Good</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Must Improve</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Full Time</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Part Time</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*The disclosure of numbers where they amount to fewer than five could enable identification of individuals to whom this information relates. This would amount to a release of their personal data in breach of the Data Protection Act</p><p> </p><p>The figure given in the tables are for staff completing a 2013/14 performance report as part of the DCMS Employment Policy Performance Management System. The GEO headcount for staff covered by this system at 31 March 2014 was 50: this included staff who had recently transferred to DCMS (GEO) from other Government Departments, or had recently returned to DCMS (GEO) after e.g. maternity leave, and are therefore excluded from the total shown.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 14/10/2014 16:13:51 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

92319

	registered interest
	date	26/09/2014
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Performance Appraisal
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, how many officials in the Government Equalities Office completed the Civil Service Employment Policy Performance Management System in 2013-14; how many and what proportion of those officials received the (a) exceeded, (b) met and (c) must improve performance mark; and how many and what proportion (i) did and (ii) did not qualify for a bonus under that process.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	209652
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p><strong>The table sets out the number of Government Equalities Office employees who completed the Civil Service Employment Policy Performance Management System in 2013-14; and the proportion of those officials who received the (a) exceeded, (b) met and (c) must improve performance mark and how many and what proportion who (i) did and (ii) did not qualify for a bonus.</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>GEO</p></td><td><p>EYR Rating</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>Exceptional</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Good</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Must Improve</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>36**</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Percentage</p></td><td><p>28%</p></td><td><p>58%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Bonus</p></td><td><p><strong>Eligible</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Not eligible</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Grand Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>28%</p></td><td><p>72%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>** The figure given is for staff completing a 2013/14 performance report as part of the DCMS Employment Policy Performance Management System. The GEO headcount for staff covered by this system at 31 March 2014 was 50: this included staff who had recently transferred to DCMS (GEO) from other Government Departments, or had recently returned to DCMS (GEO) after e.g. maternity leave, and are therefore excluded from the total shown.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 14/10/2014 16:12:59 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

92320

	registered interest
	date	26/09/2014
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Performance Appraisal
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, how many officials in the Government Equalities Office of what (a) gender, (b) ethnicity and (c) age received the Civil Service Employment Policy Performance Management System's (i) exceeded, (ii) met and (iii) must improve performance mark in 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	209483
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p><strong>The table sets out the number of Government Equalities Office employees within each performance category for the 2013-14 reporting year for assessments received to date by gender, ethnicity and age. </strong><strong>The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) takes seriously its obligations to collect diversity data as required by the Equality Act 2010. All staff have been asked to provide personal diversity data to be held anonymously, and we continue to encourage increased declaration by staff. As such these figures will not be fully representative of workforce diversity. </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>a) </strong><strong>Gender</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>GEO</p></td><td><p>EYR Rating</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Gender</p></td><td><p><strong>Exceptional</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Good</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Must Improve</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>F</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>M</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*The disclosure of numbers where they amount to fewer than five could enable identification of individuals to whom this information relates. This would amount to a release of their personal data in breach of the Data Protection Act</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>b) </strong><strong>Ethnicity</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>GEO</p></td><td><p>EYR Rating</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Ethnicity</p></td><td><p><strong>Exceptional</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Good</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Must Improve</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not disclosed</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Any Other Ethnic Background</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td> </td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian - Indian</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td> </td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black - African</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black - Caribbean</p></td><td> </td><td><p>*</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Mixed - Other</p></td><td> </td><td><p>*</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Prefer not to say</p></td><td> </td><td><p>*</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*The disclosure of numbers where they amount to fewer than five could enable identification of individuals to whom this information relates. This would amount to a release of their personal data in breach of the Data Protection Act</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>c) </strong><strong>Age </strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>GEO</p></td><td><p>EYR Rating</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Age</p></td><td><p><strong>Exceptional</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Good</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Must Improve</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>25-29</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>30-34</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>35-39</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>40-44</p></td><td> </td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>45-49</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>50-54</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>55-59</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>60-64</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td><p>*</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*The disclosure of numbers where they amount to fewer than five could enable identification of individuals to whom this information relates. This would amount to a release of their personal data in breach of the Data Protection Act</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 14/10/2014 16:13:27 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

91100

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2014
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Government Equalities Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the effect on organisational capacity and productivity of moving the Government Equalities Office between parent Departments since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	208494
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2014 answer text <p>The Government Equalities Office (GEO) is a small policy unit which, under successive governments, has moved between parent Departments following changes of Ministerial portfolio.</p><p> </p><p>The resources, productivity and capacity of the GEO are kept under continuous review to ensure they are sufficient to deliver the Government’s equalities programme.</p><p>No formal assessment has been made of the financial costs, other costs or benefits of relocating GEO staff.</p><p> </p><p>Following the recent reshuffle in July, the GEO will continue to be based in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and will serve the Ministers for Women and Equalities.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson grouped question UIN 208495 208811 question first answered 12/09/2014 12:56:22 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

91101

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2014
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Government Equalities Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what the financial cost has been of moving the Government Equalities Office between parent Departments since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	208495
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2014 answer text <p>The Government Equalities Office (GEO) is a small policy unit which, under successive governments, has moved between parent Departments following changes of Ministerial portfolio.</p><p> </p><p>The resources, productivity and capacity of the GEO are kept under continuous review to ensure they are sufficient to deliver the Government’s equalities programme.</p><p>No formal assessment has been made of the financial costs, other costs or benefits of relocating GEO staff.</p><p> </p><p>Following the recent reshuffle in July, the GEO will continue to be based in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and will serve the Ministers for Women and Equalities.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson grouped question UIN 208494 208811 question first answered 12/09/2014 12:56:22 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

91102

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2014
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Transgender People: Human Rights
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the extent to which government policy on gender identity conforms to the Yogyakarta Principles on human rights law in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity; and what steps she has taken to ensure that policy conforms to those principles.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	208586
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2014 answer text <p>The UK Government is proud of its record in protecting and advancing the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens and in promoting equal treatment abroad.</p><p>The Yogyakarta Principles are a set of standards conceived by an independent group of human rights experts. The Principles have not been adopted by any nation state or international legislative body and the Government does not intend to undertake an assessment of the extent to which its policies conforms to them. However, our legislation, policy and practice in relation to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality meets, or surpasses, our international commitments and human rights requirements.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 12/09/2014 12:45:39 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

91213

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2014
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Intersex
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what meetings (a) she, (b) Ministers in her Department and (c) officials in her Department have had with individuals or groups representing intersex people.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	208685
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Ministers and officials from the Government Equalities Office regularly meet a broad range of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender stakeholders. Government Equalities Office officials met with representatives from the UK Intersex Association in June 2012.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 12/09/2014 12:41:06 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

91326

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2014
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Government Equalities Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what assessments have been made since 2010 of the potential merits of establishing the Government Equalities Office within a permanent parent department or as a standalone department.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	208811
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2014 answer text <p>The Government Equalities Office (GEO) is a small policy unit which, under successive governments, has moved between parent Departments following changes of Ministerial portfolio.</p><p> </p><p>The resources, productivity and capacity of the GEO are kept under continuous review to ensure they are sufficient to deliver the Government’s equalities programme.</p><p>No formal assessment has been made of the financial costs, other costs or benefits of relocating GEO staff.</p><p> </p><p>Following the recent reshuffle in July, the GEO will continue to be based in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and will serve the Ministers for Women and Equalities.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson grouped question UIN 208494 208495 question first answered 12/09/2014 12:56:23 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

77237

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2014
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, how much and what proportion of the Government Equalities Office's budget was spent on activities which were contracted out in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14; and how much and what proportion of the Government Equalities Office's budget he expects to be contracted out in 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
	uin	205216
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p /> <p>I refer the honourable Member for Tooting to the answer given by my hon. Friend, the Minister for Sport and Tourism on given on 2nd September 2014 Official Report, col 201W . The figures for 2013-14 and 2014-15 for DCMS included figures for the Government Equalities Office (GEO). Within those totals, the figures for the GEO are:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Contracted-out expenditure<br> £000<br> Actuals</strong></p></td><td> </td><td><p><strong>Proportion of contracted-out expenditure to Budget<br> Actuals*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2,252</p></td><td> </td><td><p>26%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Forecast</strong></p></td><td> </td><td><p><strong>Forecast</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2,782</p></td><td> </td><td><p>42%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>* the percentage value is calculated against a proportion of the GEO budget which excludes grant payments and internal payment transfers between departments</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For prior years the Department does not hold this information, as the GEO used the expertise of the Home Office and Government Procurement Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 03/09/2014 12:40:32 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

65795

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2014
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Economic Situation: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the contribution of women to the economy; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Miss Anne McIntosh
	uin	203923
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2014 answer text <p>Women play a vital role in the economy. The Small Business Survey found that SMEs led by women contributed £75 billion to the economy in 2012 alone. The Women's Business Council estimate that, by equalising the labour force participation rates of men and women, the UK could further increase GDP per capita growth by 0.5 percentage points per year, with potential gains of 10% of GDP by 2030.</p><p>In November last year, the Government published its action plan on women and the economy, setting out full range of action we are taking, including extending the right to request flexible working from June and introducing Shared Parental Leave in April 2015.</p><p>We now have the highest number of women in work and in self-employment on record, the highest ever employment rate for women, and record numbers of women-led enterprises.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 10/07/2014 15:26:48 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering