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432473

registered interest
date	23/11/2015
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: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government is taking to raise girls' aspirations in schools.
tabling member constituency	Derby North
tabling member printed	Amanda Solloway
uin	902393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>We are determined to tackle gender inequality at its root so that every child can fulfill their potential. Too often girls’ success at school is not reflected in the workplace.</p><p>In my role as Education Secretary, I’ve strengthened links between schools and employers. That’s why we are backing the inspirational Your Life scheme and why we published the Your Daughter’s Future Guide.</p><p>I am also encouraging schools to focus on character skills, <em>as well as</em> attainment, including a £5m investment in character education.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 26/11/2015 16:25:17 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway

432476

registered interest
date	23/11/2015
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking to reduce gender economic inequality.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	902396
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>You cannot have true opportunity without real equality. Achieving gender equality isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s vital for our economy. We cannot afford to waste the skills of a single person, let alone half our population.</p><p>The Government wants to support all women to fulfil their potential and progress in work. One of the greatest issues affecting both women AND men is childcare. That is why we are doubling the amount of free childcare available to working parents and introduced flexible working and shared parental leave.</p><br /> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 26/11/2015 16:23:29 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

377257

registered interest
date	09/06/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to maintain current levels of the schools budget and per-pupil spending.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	900311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2015 answer text <p>As we pledged in our manifesto, we are protecting funding for our schools and the money spent on our children because nothing is more important than investing in the next generation. This will mean that as pupil numbers increase, so too will the amount of money schools receive.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 15/06/2015 15:57:58 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

223594

registered interest
date	24/02/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Social Mobility
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to use state schools to encourage social mobility.
tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
uin	907805
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p>I want to ensure all young people are prepared for life in modern Britain, regardless of background. Over the course of this Parliament, we have invested £8.8bn through the pupil premium, and introduced accountability measures to ensure it is used to improve the progress and attainment of disadvantaged pupils. Our analysis shows that the gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers is narrowing.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are also investing £5 million to help schools ensure that pupils develop character attributes, such as resilience and grit, which underpin success in education and employment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Education plays a vital role in giving all young people the opportunities they deserve. That’s why we are committed to ensuring all young people can attend a good local school. One million more pupils are in good or outstanding schools than in 2010.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 02/03/2015 16:44:43 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab

167386

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
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	Castes: Discrimination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether the Government plans to proceed with the first of the two consultations before the end of autumn 2014 to add caste as an aspect of race into the Equality Act 2010 in accordance with the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Dr Julian Huppert
uin	216879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>We are currently considering the form and timing of the public consultation in the light of ongoing caste discrimination litigation in the Employment Appeal Tribunal. We will await the outcome of the judgment before deciding in what form to issue the public consultation</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 05/12/2014 09:51:38 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	3931 label Biography information for Dr Julian Huppert

166288

registered interest
date	25/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Science: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support her Department is providing to the Your Life campaign promoting take-up of maths and science subjects.
tabling member constituency	Mid Worcestershire
tabling member printed	Sir Peter Luff
uin	906332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>The Your Life campaign is independently led, with sponsorship from business, and backed by strong support across Government. It is a three-year campaign to ensure the UK has the maths and science skills it needs to succeed in a competitive global economy.</p><p>A 2014 CBI/Pearson report found that STEM skills are in widespread demand and nearly two in five firms that need employees with STEM skills and knowledge currently have difficulties recruiting staff.</p><p>It is essential that students leave school as fully-rounded individuals, with experience of a broad and balanced curriculum to prepare them for life in modern Britain. Maths and science are valuable skills to have, no matter what they choose to pursue.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 08/12/2014 16:03:52 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	268 label Biography information for Sir Peter Luff

166058

registered interest
date	24/11/2014
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	Business: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department has taken to promote the use of role models for women in business.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Stephen Mosley
uin	906309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>We are actively promoting female role models on our new ‘Women in Enterprise’ web page (<a href="http://www.greatbusiness.gov.uk/women-in-enterprise/" target="_blank">http://www.greatbusiness.gov.uk/women-in-enterprise/</a> ) and as part of our Great Business campaign. We have invested £1.9m in the Get Mentoring project, which recruited and trained over 6000 mentors to specifically support female entrepreneurs. We announced earlier this month that we would build on this programme by holding a series of ‘Meet a Mentor’ events for women in venues across the UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 27/11/2014 12:05:20 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	3954 label Biography information for Stephen Mosley

166485

registered interest
date	24/11/2014
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	Human Rights: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what recent discussions she has had with her international counterparts on protecting the rights of women and girls overseas.
tabling member constituency	Gillingham and Rainham
tabling member printed	Rehman Chishti
uin	906316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>I have recently returned from the US where I had a meeting with the Executive Director of UN Women and others active in the field to discuss the Commission on the Status of Women that will be held in March next year. This is the principal global event on womens’ rights organised by the UN.</p><p> </p><p>In the summer we hosted two global events – a summit with a focus on preventing sexual violence in conflict, which generated strong international support; and a girl summit, which brought together a range of international stakeholders to accelerate momentum in tackling child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 27/11/2014 12:07:59 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	3987 label Biography information for Rehman Chishti

77744

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
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	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, how many officials employed by the Government Equalities Office, of each grade, have remained at that grade since 2010 but received a pay rise; and how much of a rise each such person at each such grade has received.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	205457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government Equalities Office joined DCMS in September 2012. The Department’s database management system does not record this information in a way that can extract the information asked for. To identify this information for each employee would incur disproportionate cost. Pay awards for civil service departments are limited to an average of up to one percent of overall paybill costs.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 21/07/2014 09:50:50 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

77033

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Standard of Living
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent fiscal steps he has taken to encourage an improvement in living standards; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	205098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>The IFS state that “there have been very significant falls in real earnings as a direct but delayed result of the 2008 recession, essentially”.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The government has taken continued action to help hardworking families, including raising the personal allowance, which will take over 3.2m individuals out of income tax altogether by 2015/16, as well as freezing fuel duty, council tax and reducing household energy bills. The best way to improve people's living standards is to boost productivity and jobs, and the labour market has continued to strengthen with record numbers of people in work.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 15/07/2014 14:57:14 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby