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1697196

registered interest
date	19/03/2024
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: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the recommendation on ethnicity pay gap reporting in paragraph 35 of the guide entitled Considering Social Factors in Pension Scheme Investments, published by Taskforce on Social Factors in October 2023.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	19447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government published guidance in April 2023 which sets out how employers can measure, report on, and address any unfair ethnicity pay gaps within their workforce. This was an action from our ambitious Inclusive Britain strategy, published in March 2022.</p><p>We have no plans to introduce mandatory ethnicity pay reporting. Instead, we want to encourage and support those employers who want to use ethnicity pay reporting to improve transparency and build trust among their employees.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 27/03/2024 16:59:40 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1605691

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
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: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to action 16 of the report entitled Inclusive Britain: government response to the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, published on 17 March 2022, what progress she has made on the publication of voluntary ethnicity pay gap reporting.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	169396
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2023 answer text <p>When the Minister for Women and Equalities published Inclusive Britain, our ground-breaking strategy for tackling ethnic disparities, she committed to reporting back to Parliament on progress. We will publish the update report shortly, outlining progress against all 74 actions.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 169394 169395 169397 169398 169399 169400 169401 169402 169403 169404 169405 169406 169407 169408 169409 169410 169411 169412 question first answered 23/03/2023 17:13:57 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1605715

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
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: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the policy paper entitled Inclusive Britain: government response to the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, published on 17 March 2022, what recent progress the Government has made on action 17.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	169406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2023 answer text <p>When the Minister for Women and Equalities published Inclusive Britain, our ground-breaking strategy for tackling ethnic disparities, she committed to reporting back to Parliament on progress. We will publish the update report shortly, outlining progress against all 74 actions.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 169394 169395 169396 169397 169398 169399 169400 169401 169402 169403 169404 169405 169407 169408 169409 169410 169411 169412 question first answered 23/03/2023 17:13:58 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1602352

registered interest
date	08/03/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Equal Pay: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what her Department's planned timetable is for the publication of the Government’s ethnicity pay gap reporting guidance.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	161403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2023 answer text <p>This Government remains committed to tackling all areas of disparities in this country, including in employment. It is crucial that everyone is treated fairly in the workplace, so that they can thrive and reach their full potential and we want to ensure that everyone has access to the same employment opportunities.</p><p> </p><p>Ethnicity pay gap reporting is just one type of tool to assist employers in doing this and it may not always be the most appropriate mechanism for some types of organisations. Therefore, as set out in the “Inclusive Britain” report, which was published in March 2022, the Government will not be legislating to make ethnicity pay reporting mandatory at this stage. Instead we are committed to producing guidance to support those who wish to report voluntarily. This will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake grouped question UIN 161405 question first answered 16/03/2023 13:01:25 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1602367

registered interest
date	08/03/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Equal Pay: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the number of firms who have published ethnicity pay gap reporting.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	161405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2023 answer text <p>This Government remains committed to tackling all areas of disparities in this country, including in employment. It is crucial that everyone is treated fairly in the workplace, so that they can thrive and reach their full potential and we want to ensure that everyone has access to the same employment opportunities.</p><p> </p><p>Ethnicity pay gap reporting is just one type of tool to assist employers in doing this and it may not always be the most appropriate mechanism for some types of organisations. Therefore, as set out in the “Inclusive Britain” report, which was published in March 2022, the Government will not be legislating to make ethnicity pay reporting mandatory at this stage. Instead we are committed to producing guidance to support those who wish to report voluntarily. This will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake grouped question UIN 161403 question first answered 16/03/2023 13:01:25 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1580865

registered interest
date	25/01/2023
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Equal Pay: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will set out a publication timetable for the Government’s ethnicity pay gap reporting guidance for businesses.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	132619
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government responded to the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities’ report and recommendations with the “Inclusive Britain” report which was published in March 2022. In this report, the Government set out that ethnicity pay reporting will be voluntary and committed to publish guidance on ethnicity pay reporting. This will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 01/02/2023 08:30:27 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1519622

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
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: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what the gender pay gap was by ethnicity in the most recent period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	60033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2022 answer text <p>ONS last published data on the average (median) hourly pay differences between men and women in different ethnic groups in 2019 from the Annual Population Survey.</p><p>Pay differences between men and women vary by ethnic groups. While in most ethnic groups men earn more than women on average per hour, that is not the case in the Arab, Bangladeshi or black Caribbean ethnic groups.</p><p>Where men earn more than women, the largest pay difference is for people from the Indian ethnic group, where men earn £4.10 more per hour on average. This is higher than the difference for the white British ethnic group, where men earn £2.57 more per hour.</p><p><strong>Median hourly pay, 17 ethnic groups by sex, England and Wales, 2019</strong></p><table><thead><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Female </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Male</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Difference between Male and Female pay (male minus female)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Arab</p></td><td><p>£12.49</p></td><td><p>£12.10</p></td><td><p>-£0.39</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bangladeshi</p></td><td><p>£10.60</p></td><td><p>£10.41</p></td><td><p>-£0.19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black Caribbean</p></td><td><p>£12.09</p></td><td><p>£12.03</p></td><td><p>-£0.06</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other black / African / Caribbean background</p></td><td><p>£11.53</p></td><td><p>£12.28</p></td><td><p>£0.75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White Irish</p></td><td><p>£16.93</p></td><td><p>£17.80</p></td><td><p>£0.87</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other ethnic group</p></td><td><p>£11.11</p></td><td><p>£12.03</p></td><td><p>£0.92</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other Asian background</p></td><td><p>£11.06</p></td><td><p>£12.16</p></td><td><p>£1.10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other white (including Gypsy Traveller)</p></td><td><p>£10.95</p></td><td><p>£12.07</p></td><td><p>£1.12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other mixed / multiple ethnic background</p></td><td><p>£12.07</p></td><td><p>£13.28</p></td><td><p>£1.21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black African</p></td><td><p>£10.92</p></td><td><p>£12.13</p></td><td><p>£1.21</p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Pakistani</p></td><td><p>£10.10</p></td><td><p>£11.43</p></td><td><p>£1.33</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White and Asian</p></td><td><p>£12.50</p></td><td><p>£14.43</p></td><td><p>£1.93</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White British</p></td><td><p>£11.21</p></td><td><p>£13.78</p></td><td><p>£2.57</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White and black African</p></td><td><p>£10.13</p></td><td><p>£12.82</p></td><td><p>£2.69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White and black Caribbean</p></td><td><p>£9.71</p></td><td><p>£12.76</p></td><td><p>£3.05</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chinese</p></td><td><p>£14.16</p></td><td><p>£18.05</p></td><td><p>£3.89</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Indian</p></td><td><p>£12.39</p></td><td><p>£16.49</p></td><td><p>£4.10</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>Source:</strong> Office for National Statistics, Annual Population Survey 2019</p><p>The original data referred to in this answer and further information is available on the ONS website at the following location: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/articles/ethnicitypaygapsingreatbritain/2019#pay-gaps-by-sex" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/articles/ethnicitypaygapsingreatbritain/2019#pay-gaps-by-sex</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher question first answered 13/10/2022 08:58:31 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds