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596087

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	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: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, approximately how many (a) British and (b) non-British nationals are employed cleaning the Westminster estate of the Government Equalities Office.
	tabling member constituency	Southport
	tabling member printed	John Pugh
	uin	47563
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>All Government Departments are bound by legal requirements concerning the right to work in the UK and, in addition, the Civil Service Nationality Rules.</p><p> </p><p>Evidence of nationality is checked at the point of recruitment into the Civil Service as part of wider pre-employment checks, but there is no requirement on departments to retain this information beyond the point at which it has served its purpose.</p><p> </p><p>More broadly, the Government will be consulting in due course on how we work with business to ensure that workers in this country have the skills that they need to get a job. However, there are no proposals to publish lists of the number or proportion of foreign workers.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 47585 question first answered 17/10/2016 16:29:43 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1454 label Biography information for John Pugh

577655

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2016
	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	Civil Partnerships and Marriage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many (a) civil partnerships, (b) conversions of civil partnerships into marriages and (c) same sex marriages have taken place since 10 December 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	45544
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2016 answer text <p>According to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics:</p><p>(a) In 2015, a total of 861 civil partnerships were formed in England and Wales.</p><p>(b) 7,732 couples in England and Wales converted their existing civil partnership into a marriage between 10 December 2014 and 30 June 2015.</p><p>(c) A total of 7,366 marriages were formed in England and Wales between same sex couples between 29 March 2014 (when the legislation came into effect) and 30 June 2015.</p><p>This information is available online at: <a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages</a>.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 15/09/2016 17:38:35 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

657996

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2016
	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	Access to Elected Office for Disabled People Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many applications were made to Access to Elected Office Fund 2015-16 by (a) political party, (b) gender, (c) ethnicity and (d) region; and how many such applications were (i) granted and (ii) refused.
	tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
	tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
	uin	57345
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>The Access to Elected Office Fund was set up to help disabled candidates meet their additional costs in standing for election. It was a three-year pilot that ran until the General Election in May 2015. No applications were made after March 2015.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/12/2016 17:37:11 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

447442

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2016
	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	Civil Partnerships
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many civil partnerships have been (a) conducted, (b) terminated and (c) converted to marriage status since such partnerships were established.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	24071
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>Based on the latest publicly available data from the Office of National Statistics, since the Civil Partnership Act came into force in December 2005, the total number of civil partnerships formed in England and Wales up to the end of 2014 is 62,621.</p><br /><p>From January 2007 to December 2014, there were 4,527 civil partnerships dissolutions in England and Wales.</p><br /><p>A total of 7,732 couples chose to convert their existing civil partnership into a marriage in the six months between 10 December 2014 and 30 June 2015 in England and Wales.</p><br /><p>This information is available from the Office of National Statistics: <a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/taxonomy/index.html?nscl=Civil+Partnerships" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/taxonomy/index.html?nscl=Civil+Partnerships</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 28/01/2016 13:49:11 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

657275

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	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: Civil Servants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many civil servants worked in the Government Equalities Office in each of the last five years by grade; and how many at each grade were (a) women, (b) BAME and (c) disabled.
	tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
	tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
	uin	57185
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2016 answer text <p>The Government Equalities Office (GEO) joined DfE in September 2015. We do not hold data to prior to this when GEO was part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.</p><p>The number of civil servants working in GEO is shown below. Ethnicity and disability status data are based on voluntary declaration of these characteristics. To protect personal information numbers are rounded to the nearest five and suppressed when fewer than five.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>End Nov-16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Headcount</strong></p></td><td><p><em>a) women</em></p></td><td><p><em>b) BAME</em></p></td><td><p><em>c) disabled</em></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>All</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>52</strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>35</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>5</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>5</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="12"><p>Grade</p></td><td><p>Band D</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Band C</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Band B</p></td><td><p><strong>17</strong></p></td><td><p><em>10</em></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Band A</p></td><td><p><strong>13</strong></p></td><td><p><em>5</em></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Band A (UPPER)</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EO</p></td><td><p><strong>3</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HEO</p></td><td><p><strong>4</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SEO</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>GRADE 7</p></td><td><p><strong>4</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>GRADE 6</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SCS Band 1</p></td><td><p><strong>3</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SCS Band 2</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>End Nov-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Headcount</strong></p></td><td><p><em>a) women</em></p></td><td><p><em>b) BAME</em></p></td><td><p><em>c) disabled</em></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>All</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>60</strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>40</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>10</em></strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="12"><p>Grade</p></td><td><p>Band D</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Band C</p></td><td><p><strong>5</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Band B</p></td><td><p><strong>26</strong></p></td><td><p><em>20</em></p></td><td><p><em>5</em></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Band A</p></td><td><p><strong>21</strong></p></td><td><p><em>15</em></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Band A (UPPER)</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EO</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HEO</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SEO</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>GRADE 7</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>GRADE 6</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SCS Band 1</p></td><td><p><strong>3</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SCS Band 2</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 15/12/2016 16:56:28 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

445068

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2016
	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: Defibrillators
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many defibrillators are provided in each building the Government Equalities Office manages.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	22559
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2016 answer text <p>The Government Equalities Office (GEO) does not manage any buildings. The GEO shares premises with the Department for Education. We refer the Honourable Member for Brigg and Goole to the answer submitted by that department to PQ Number 22555.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/01/2016 08:57:11 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

573875

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2016
	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	Equality and Human Rights Commission: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many full-time equivalent caseworkers have been employed by the Equality and Human Rights Commission in each year from 2006.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	44522
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2016 answer text <p>The Equality and Human Rights Commission was formed in 2007 and is an independent body. The Commission is responsible for its own staff management, including the number of case workers it employs. I have therefore asked the Commission to write to the Hon. Member with the information requested.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 07/09/2016 16:34:47 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

448756

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2016
	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	Females: Public Appointments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many meetings she has had on increasing the number of women receiving public appointments since May 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	24805
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2016 answer text <p>I am working closely with the Cabinet Office to modernise recruitment practices and attract a more diverse field of candidates from an ever-wider range of social and professional backgrounds.</p><p>This includes engaging with government departments, the private sector and a range of different diversity networks and groups. We have engaged with them through online advertising, social media and at events to promote and raise awareness of public appointments and better understand the barriers or concerns for those considering a public appointment.</p><p>The most recent figures published show that we are making real, consistent, progress in increasing the number of public appointments going to women. Last financial year 44% of new appointments were made to women.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/02/2016 17:54:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

448441

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2016
	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	Females: Directors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many meetings she has had with businesses since May 2015 on increasing the number of women on company boards; and who those meetings were with.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	24538
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2016 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities and I have met with many business representatives since taking on our roles as Ministers for Women and Equalities. We have also met employers and business representatives as part of our plans to introduce gender pay gap reporting and always ensure that we use these opportunities to raise the issue of achieving a better gender balance on boards. This includes attending and speaking at conferences and events, including at the 30% Club and the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which represents 190,000 businesses in the UK.</p><p>Since May 2015, we have met numerous business leaders at conferences and events, including meetings with:</p><ul><li><p>Lord Davies of Abersoch CBE</p></li><li><p>Baroness Ruby McGregor-Smith, CBE, CEO, Mitie Group PLC (in her capacity as Chair of the Women’s Business Council)</p></li><li><p>Baroness Ruby McGregor-Smith, CBE, CEO, Mitie Group PLC</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Cilla Snowball, CBE, Group Chairman and Group CEO, Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO</p></li><li><p>Denis Woulfe, Partner, Deloitte LLP</p></li><li><p>Emer Timmons, President, BT Global Services UK</p></li><li><p>Fiona Dawson, Global President, Mars Food, Drinks, and Multisales, Mars Food</p></li><li><p>Sue Langley, OBE, Non-Executive Chairman, A J Gallagher UK, UK Asset Resolution Limited (Northern Rock Asset Management and Bradford &amp; Bingley)</p></li><li><p>Sue O’Brien, OBE, Partner, Ridgeways Partners</p></li><li><p>Amanda Harrison, HR Director, Centrica PLC</p></li></ul><p>I also spoke at the launch of Lord Davies’s final report, which was attended by a large cross section of over 100 businesses.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 24539 question first answered 01/02/2016 15:29:39 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

448439

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2016
	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	Females: Directors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many meetings she has had with chief executives of FTSE 100 companies since May 2015 at which she raised the issue of increasing the number of women on company boards.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	24539
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2016 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities and I have met with many business representatives since taking on our roles as Ministers for Women and Equalities. We have also met employers and business representatives as part of our plans to introduce gender pay gap reporting and always ensure that we use these opportunities to raise the issue of achieving a better gender balance on boards. This includes attending and speaking at conferences and events, including at the 30% Club and the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which represents 190,000 businesses in the UK.</p><p>Since May 2015, we have met numerous business leaders at conferences and events, including meetings with:</p><ul><li><p>Lord Davies of Abersoch CBE</p></li><li><p>Baroness Ruby McGregor-Smith, CBE, CEO, Mitie Group PLC (in her capacity as Chair of the Women’s Business Council)</p></li><li><p>Baroness Ruby McGregor-Smith, CBE, CEO, Mitie Group PLC</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Cilla Snowball, CBE, Group Chairman and Group CEO, Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO</p></li><li><p>Denis Woulfe, Partner, Deloitte LLP</p></li><li><p>Emer Timmons, President, BT Global Services UK</p></li><li><p>Fiona Dawson, Global President, Mars Food, Drinks, and Multisales, Mars Food</p></li><li><p>Sue Langley, OBE, Non-Executive Chairman, A J Gallagher UK, UK Asset Resolution Limited (Northern Rock Asset Management and Bradford &amp; Bingley)</p></li><li><p>Sue O’Brien, OBE, Partner, Ridgeways Partners</p></li><li><p>Amanda Harrison, HR Director, Centrica PLC</p></li></ul><p>I also spoke at the launch of Lord Davies’s final report, which was attended by a large cross section of over 100 businesses.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 24538 question first answered 01/02/2016 15:29:39 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis