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659663

registered interest
date	15/12/2016
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	Equal Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the draft Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017, what sanctions will be applied to employers for non-compliance with the new reporting requirements.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	57803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>Non-compliance with the regulations will constitute an ‘unlawful act’ and fall within the existing enforcement powers of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) under the Equality Act 2006.</p><p> </p><p>The regulations require that, in addition to publishing the information on their own website, employers must also publish the information on a government website. This will allow us to closely monitor levels of compliance and keep this position under review by establishing a database of compliant employers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/12/2016 17:35:24 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

658599

registered interest
date	14/12/2016
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: Horizon 2020
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the oral contribution by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Treasury Committee on 12 December 2016, in response to Q311, who in the Government Equalities Office is responsible for assessing whether grant applications for Horizon 2020 funding are (a) value for money and (b) in line with Government objectives.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	57696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/12/2016 17:34:57 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

658600

registered interest
date	14/12/2016
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	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, what estimate the Government Equalities Office has made of the number of jobs in the Equality and Human Rights Commission that will be lost as a result of changes to that body's funding up to 2020.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	57735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>The Equality and Human Rights Commission is an independent body established under the Equality Act 2006. The Commission is responsible for its own staff management, including the number of staff it employs. However, its current re-structuring is intended to enable it to make necessary financial savings while continuing to fulfil all its statutory functions in an efficient way.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/12/2016 17:35:46 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

658603

registered interest
date	14/12/2016
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	Equality and Human Rights Commission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether an equality impact assessment has been carried out on planned reductions in funding of the Equality and Human Rights Commission up to 2020.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	57766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has a budget of £20.4m for 2016-17. Budgets for the years 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20 are being finalised by the Department for Education in consultation with the EHRC, and are consistent with the spending review settlement provided to the Department. We hope to be in a position to confirm budgets for these years shortly.</p><p> </p><p>The EHRC has, and will, continue to receive sufficient funds to enable it to fulfil its statutory functions.</p><p> </p><p>In finalising the budget allocation for the spending review period, the Government Equalities Office will have continued due regard to its responsibilities under the Public Sector Equality Duty.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/12/2016 17:36:22 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

657993

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	Government Equalities Office: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what the average hourly earnings are of her Department's (a) BME and (b) non-BME employees.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	57322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2016 answer text <p>The table below shows the average hourly earnings of the Department for Education (DfE) staff, including the Government Equalities Office (GEO) staff, by a) female b) male c) BME and d) non-BME.</p><p>Average Earnings of DfE Staff (including GEO)</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Nov-16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Female</p></td><td><p>£20.61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Male</p></td><td><p>£21.97</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BME</p></td><td><p>£18.98</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Non-BME</p></td><td><p>£21.93</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the average hourly earnings of GEO staff by a) female and b) male.</p><p>Average earnings of GEO Staff</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Nov-16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Female</p></td><td><p>£24.11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Male</p></td><td><p>£25.10</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Department and GEO records earnings as annual salaries. In order to convert the annual salaries to hourly rates the following calculation has been used: ((Gross Basic Salary*FTE)/52)/Weekly hours.</p><p>The pay gap is lower when analysed at grade level for men and women and BME and non-BME. The gaps can be largely attributed to the fact that is greater proportions of women and BME staff of the lower pay bands.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 57324 question first answered 16/12/2016 16:32:34 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

657994

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	Staff: Surveys
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether there is an annual survey of staff in the (a) Government Equalities Office and (b) Equality and Human Rights Commission.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	57301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2016 answer text <p>The Government Equalities Office takes part in the annual Civil Service People Survey within the Department for Education. The Department’s results for 2016 were published on GOV.UK on Tuesday 6 December.</p><p>The Equality and Human Rights Commission is an independent body and is responsible for its own staff management, including conducting surveys of its staff. I have therefore asked the Chief Executive of the Commission to write to the Hon. Member with the information requested and will place a copy of the letter in the Libraries of both Houses.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 16/12/2016 14:15:37 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

657995

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	Government Equalities Office: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what the average hourly earnings are of (a) female and (b) male employees of the Government Equalities Office.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	57324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2016 answer text <p>The table below shows the average hourly earnings of the Department for Education (DfE) staff, including the Government Equalities Office (GEO) staff, by a) female b) male c) BME and d) non-BME.</p><p>Average Earnings of DfE Staff (including GEO)</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Nov-16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Female</p></td><td><p>£20.61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Male</p></td><td><p>£21.97</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BME</p></td><td><p>£18.98</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Non-BME</p></td><td><p>£21.93</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the average hourly earnings of GEO staff by a) female and b) male.</p><p>Average earnings of GEO Staff</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Nov-16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Female</p></td><td><p>£24.11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Male</p></td><td><p>£25.10</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Department and GEO records earnings as annual salaries. In order to convert the annual salaries to hourly rates the following calculation has been used: ((Gross Basic Salary*FTE)/52)/Weekly hours.</p><p>The pay gap is lower when analysed at grade level for men and women and BME and non-BME. The gaps can be largely attributed to the fact that is greater proportions of women and BME staff of the lower pay bands.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 57322 question first answered 16/12/2016 16:32:34 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

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

657997

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, when she plans to (a) publish the evaluation report on the Access to Elected Office Fund and (b) make a decision on whether that Fund should continue.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	57346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>An evaluation of the Access to Elected Office pilot fund is currently being undertaken. The report from that evaluation will be published when a statement about the future of the fund is made in due course.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/12/2016 17:37:24 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

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