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1524068

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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

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