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1524068

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2022
	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	STEM Returners Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how much funding has been allocated to the STEM returners programme.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	67195
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>The STEM returners programme announced on International Women’s Day will encourage those who have taken breaks to care for others back into STEM - giving them the opportunity to refresh and grow their skills in sectors where their talents are most needed. This pilot will build on previous Government returner initiatives, and will seek to address the barriers that returners face when re-entering the workplace. It will help organisations to recruit and retain talented staff who are often overlooked because of a gap on their CV.</p><p>Procurement of a supplier to deliver the pilot is expected to launch shortly. Information on the available funding and the expected length of the programme will be released when the procurement is launched. A formal evaluation will be conducted alongside the pilot programme to build the evidence base for what works for returners and employers.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher grouped question UIN 67196 67197 67198 question first answered 24/10/2022 09:16:44 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1524069

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2022
	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	STEM Returners Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what parameters his Department has set for the returners programme for STEM announced on 8 March 2022; and if he will publish his strategy to deliver it.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	67196
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>The STEM returners programme announced on International Women’s Day will encourage those who have taken breaks to care for others back into STEM - giving them the opportunity to refresh and grow their skills in sectors where their talents are most needed. This pilot will build on previous Government returner initiatives, and will seek to address the barriers that returners face when re-entering the workplace. It will help organisations to recruit and retain talented staff who are often overlooked because of a gap on their CV.</p><p>Procurement of a supplier to deliver the pilot is expected to launch shortly. Information on the available funding and the expected length of the programme will be released when the procurement is launched. A formal evaluation will be conducted alongside the pilot programme to build the evidence base for what works for returners and employers.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher grouped question UIN 67195 67197 67198 question first answered 24/10/2022 09:16:44 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1524070

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2022
	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	STEM Returners Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how long the STEM returners programme will run.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	67197
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>The STEM returners programme announced on International Women’s Day will encourage those who have taken breaks to care for others back into STEM - giving them the opportunity to refresh and grow their skills in sectors where their talents are most needed. This pilot will build on previous Government returner initiatives, and will seek to address the barriers that returners face when re-entering the workplace. It will help organisations to recruit and retain talented staff who are often overlooked because of a gap on their CV.</p><p>Procurement of a supplier to deliver the pilot is expected to launch shortly. Information on the available funding and the expected length of the programme will be released when the procurement is launched. A formal evaluation will be conducted alongside the pilot programme to build the evidence base for what works for returners and employers.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher grouped question UIN 67195 67196 67198 question first answered 24/10/2022 09:16:44 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1524071

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2022
	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	STEM Returners Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, which suppliers have been contracted to deliver the STEM returners programme.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	67198
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>The STEM returners programme announced on International Women’s Day will encourage those who have taken breaks to care for others back into STEM - giving them the opportunity to refresh and grow their skills in sectors where their talents are most needed. This pilot will build on previous Government returner initiatives, and will seek to address the barriers that returners face when re-entering the workplace. It will help organisations to recruit and retain talented staff who are often overlooked because of a gap on their CV.</p><p>Procurement of a supplier to deliver the pilot is expected to launch shortly. Information on the available funding and the expected length of the programme will be released when the procurement is launched. A formal evaluation will be conducted alongside the pilot programme to build the evidence base for what works for returners and employers.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher grouped question UIN 67195 67196 67197 question first answered 24/10/2022 09:16:44 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1523487

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2022
	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	Equal Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when the Government will publish its review of the impact of gender pay gap regulations.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	65985
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2022 answer text <p>This Government is committed to the empowerment of women in the workplace. Over the last decade our work has seen the gender pay gap fall considerably with the reporting regulations helping to motivate employers to improve equality in the workplace and strong growth in the number of women in full-time work.</p><p>To drive forward this progress we have recently announced a groundbreaking pay transparency pilot, a new STEM returners programme and a Taskforce on Women-Led High-Growth Enterprises.</p><p>We are required to carry out a review of the regulations after they’ve been in force for five years; as is the case for many other business regulations. This is being prepared by the Equality Hub. It is important that we take time to properly consider the evidence we have from the last five years, especially factoring in the effects of the pandemic, so that the review accurately reflects the implementation and impact of reporting. It will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher grouped question UIN 65987 question first answered 21/10/2022 09:47:38 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1523508

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2022
	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	Equal Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many companies have signed up to the Government’s pay transparency research pilot.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	65986
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2022 answer text <p>In March, the Equality Hub announced a pilot study to build the evidence on the impact of employers including salary information in all job adverts, and stopping asking about previous salary during recruitment, as part of a new drive on pay transparency. In order to ensure the results from the pilot are robust, we will be running it as a controlled trial; with specific employers recruited to take part. We will make an announcement on the participating employers at a time that will ensure the outcomes of the trials are not influenced by it.</p><p>The pay setting processes of employers vary widely, and are likely to have changed over the lifetime of the organisations. Many are unlikely to have established a fair and robust pay and reward process from the outset, or performed a job evaluation study. This in turn produces the conditions where unintentional pay disparities may open up. For this reason, for many organisations, moving immediately to a system of full pay transparency is likely to require a period of adjustment. That is why we also announced that we will work with employers to develop a methodology to support them to adopt these measures.</p><p>This work, separate to the research pilot, will be supported by the pay transparency working group. This informal group met for the first time in September, and is made up of a mixture of employer bodies, businesses, and HR professionals. In order to facilitate rich discussion among participants, these meetings are held under Chatham House rules. This enables employers to be honest about the barriers they are facing, which will in turn inform a more effective methodology which actually engages with the issues.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher grouped question UIN 65988 65989 question first answered 21/10/2022 10:27:00 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1523511

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2022
	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	Equal Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment the Government has made of the operation of the Gender Pay Gap Regulations in each of the last five years; which Department has been responsible for that assessment; and what budget the Government has allocated to that assessment in that period.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	65987
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2022 answer text <p>This Government is committed to the empowerment of women in the workplace. Over the last decade our work has seen the gender pay gap fall considerably with the reporting regulations helping to motivate employers to improve equality in the workplace and strong growth in the number of women in full-time work.</p><p>To drive forward this progress we have recently announced a groundbreaking pay transparency pilot, a new STEM returners programme and a Taskforce on Women-Led High-Growth Enterprises.</p><p>We are required to carry out a review of the regulations after they’ve been in force for five years; as is the case for many other business regulations. This is being prepared by the Equality Hub. It is important that we take time to properly consider the evidence we have from the last five years, especially factoring in the effects of the pandemic, so that the review accurately reflects the implementation and impact of reporting. It will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher grouped question UIN 65985 question first answered 21/10/2022 09:47:38 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1523516

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2022
	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	Equal Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what practical guidance the Government Equalities Office has prepared for employers to support pay transparency.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	65988
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2022 answer text <p>In March, the Equality Hub announced a pilot study to build the evidence on the impact of employers including salary information in all job adverts, and stopping asking about previous salary during recruitment, as part of a new drive on pay transparency. In order to ensure the results from the pilot are robust, we will be running it as a controlled trial; with specific employers recruited to take part. We will make an announcement on the participating employers at a time that will ensure the outcomes of the trials are not influenced by it.</p><p>The pay setting processes of employers vary widely, and are likely to have changed over the lifetime of the organisations. Many are unlikely to have established a fair and robust pay and reward process from the outset, or performed a job evaluation study. This in turn produces the conditions where unintentional pay disparities may open up. For this reason, for many organisations, moving immediately to a system of full pay transparency is likely to require a period of adjustment. That is why we also announced that we will work with employers to develop a methodology to support them to adopt these measures.</p><p>This work, separate to the research pilot, will be supported by the pay transparency working group. This informal group met for the first time in September, and is made up of a mixture of employer bodies, businesses, and HR professionals. In order to facilitate rich discussion among participants, these meetings are held under Chatham House rules. This enables employers to be honest about the barriers they are facing, which will in turn inform a more effective methodology which actually engages with the issues.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher grouped question UIN 65986 65989 question first answered 21/10/2022 10:27:00 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1523522

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2022
	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	Equal Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if he will publish the minutes of every meeting of the transparency research pilot working group.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	65989
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2022 answer text <p>In March, the Equality Hub announced a pilot study to build the evidence on the impact of employers including salary information in all job adverts, and stopping asking about previous salary during recruitment, as part of a new drive on pay transparency. In order to ensure the results from the pilot are robust, we will be running it as a controlled trial; with specific employers recruited to take part. We will make an announcement on the participating employers at a time that will ensure the outcomes of the trials are not influenced by it.</p><p>The pay setting processes of employers vary widely, and are likely to have changed over the lifetime of the organisations. Many are unlikely to have established a fair and robust pay and reward process from the outset, or performed a job evaluation study. This in turn produces the conditions where unintentional pay disparities may open up. For this reason, for many organisations, moving immediately to a system of full pay transparency is likely to require a period of adjustment. That is why we also announced that we will work with employers to develop a methodology to support them to adopt these measures.</p><p>This work, separate to the research pilot, will be supported by the pay transparency working group. This informal group met for the first time in September, and is made up of a mixture of employer bodies, businesses, and HR professionals. In order to facilitate rich discussion among participants, these meetings are held under Chatham House rules. This enables employers to be honest about the barriers they are facing, which will in turn inform a more effective methodology which actually engages with the issues.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher grouped question UIN 65986 65988 question first answered 21/10/2022 10:27:00 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1520385

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2022
	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	Equal Pay: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle (a) pay discrepancies and (b) disadvantage in the labour market for women from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	61320
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2022 answer text <p>It is crucial that we ensure everyone is treated fairly in the workplace, so that they can thrive and reach their full potential.</p><p>This Government is committed to the empowerment of women in the workplace. Over the last decade our work has seen the gender pay gap fall considerably, and a strong growth in the number of women in full-time work. To drive forward this progress we have recently announced a groundbreaking pay transparency pilot, a new STEM returners programme and a Taskforce on Women-Led High-Growth Enterprises.</p><p>On ethnicity pay gaps; in “Inclusive Britain”, the response to the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities’ report, we accepted the recommendation to publish guidance for employers to support a voluntary approach to ethnicity pay reporting. Work on this is already underway.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher question first answered 17/10/2022 16:19:45 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds