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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

1523535

registered interest
date	18/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cars: Noise
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to tackle cars which do not comply with noise suppression laws.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	65649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>The police and local authorities have existing powers to tackle excessively noisy and illegally modified vehicles.</p><p>To support enforcement efforts, the Department has commenced roadside trials of the latest ‘noise camera’ technology to understand if it can be an effective tool for the police and local authorities that will enable more targeted and efficient enforcement. If the trials prove to be successful, noise cameras may be considered for wider rollout.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher question first answered 24/10/2022 10:58:40 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1523562

registered interest
date	18/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: North West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of smart motorways in the North West of England.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	66052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>We have paused the rollout of new smart motorways to collect more safety and economic data to make informed decisions on next steps. We will also consider alternative options for enhancing capacity on the Strategic Road Network. The latest evaluation of safety is found in <em>Smart motorways stocktake - Second year progress report 2022</em>, https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-work/smart-motorways-evidence-stocktake/. National Highways publishes Post Opening Project Evaluations for all individual smart motorway schemes when one-year data and five-year data is available. These are published at https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/post-opening-project-evaluation-pope-of-major-schemes/.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher grouped question UIN 66053 66054 66055 question first answered 25/10/2022 12:14:19 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1523566

registered interest
date	18/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: North West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the removal of hard shoulders on new smart motorways in the North West of England.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	66053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>We have paused the rollout of new smart motorways to collect more safety and economic data to make informed decisions on next steps. We will also consider alternative options for enhancing capacity on the Strategic Road Network. The latest evaluation of safety is found in <em>Smart motorways stocktake - Second year progress report 2022</em>, https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-work/smart-motorways-evidence-stocktake/. National Highways publishes Post Opening Project Evaluations for all individual smart motorway schemes when one-year data and five-year data is available. These are published at https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/post-opening-project-evaluation-pope-of-major-schemes/.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher grouped question UIN 66052 66054 66055 question first answered 25/10/2022 12:14:19 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1523584

registered interest
date	18/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: Cost Effectiveness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made on the viability of new smart motorways; and what assessment she has made of the value for money of those motorways given that they do not have a hard shoulder.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	66054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>We have paused the rollout of new smart motorways to collect more safety and economic data to make informed decisions on next steps. We will also consider alternative options for enhancing capacity on the Strategic Road Network. The latest evaluation of safety is found in <em>Smart motorways stocktake - Second year progress report 2022</em>, https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-work/smart-motorways-evidence-stocktake/. National Highways publishes Post Opening Project Evaluations for all individual smart motorway schemes when one-year data and five-year data is available. These are published at https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/post-opening-project-evaluation-pope-of-major-schemes/.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher grouped question UIN 66052 66053 66055 question first answered 25/10/2022 12:14:19 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1523585

registered interest
date	18/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make a comparative assessment of the effectiveness of smart motorways where the hard shoulder (a) remains and (b) has been removed.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	66055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>We have paused the rollout of new smart motorways to collect more safety and economic data to make informed decisions on next steps. We will also consider alternative options for enhancing capacity on the Strategic Road Network. The latest evaluation of safety is found in <em>Smart motorways stocktake - Second year progress report 2022</em>, https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-work/smart-motorways-evidence-stocktake/. National Highways publishes Post Opening Project Evaluations for all individual smart motorway schemes when one-year data and five-year data is available. These are published at https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/post-opening-project-evaluation-pope-of-major-schemes/.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher grouped question UIN 66052 66053 66054 question first answered 25/10/2022 12:14:19 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker