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65588

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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	Gender: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, how much the Government has spent on the Think, Act, Report initiative.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	203666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p><em>Think, Act, Report</em> was launched in September 2011. On average it has had 2 full-time equivalent staff working on it since then, comprising one team leader (Grade 7) and one Senior Executive Officer. Around £5,000 has been spent on events and publications to support the initiative. Significant support in kind has been received from supporting businesses and other organisations, including the Royal Bank of Scotland, CIPD, CMI, Opportunity Now, and others. More than 200 companies are now supporting <em>Think, Act, Report</em>, collectively employing over 2million people.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 07/07/2014 14:58:47 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

65795

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
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	Economic Situation: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the contribution of women to the economy; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Miss Anne McIntosh
uin	203923
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2014 answer text <p>Women play a vital role in the economy. The Small Business Survey found that SMEs led by women contributed £75 billion to the economy in 2012 alone. The Women's Business Council estimate that, by equalising the labour force participation rates of men and women, the UK could further increase GDP per capita growth by 0.5 percentage points per year, with potential gains of 10% of GDP by 2030.</p><p>In November last year, the Government published its action plan on women and the economy, setting out full range of action we are taking, including extending the right to request flexible working from June and introducing Shared Parental Leave in April 2015.</p><p>We now have the highest number of women in work and in self-employment on record, the highest ever employment rate for women, and record numbers of women-led enterprises.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 10/07/2014 15:26:48 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

77240

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Equal Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what recent meetings she has had with ministerial colleagues on the gender pay gap.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	205141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government's Women and the Economy action plan sets out a clear programme of work to maximise women's contribution to economic growth and address the gender pay gap. I have oversight of this, as well as being the minister responsible for key elements of it, such as extending flexible working, introducing shared parental leave, and increasing the number of women on company boards. I regularly meet with ministerial colleagues and others to discuss these issues, and the Ministers for Women gave a joint presentation to Cabinet in April on these issues.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 17/07/2014 12:23:28 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

77242

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Flexible Working
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what steps she has taken to encourage flexible working in the Government Equalities Office.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	205147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government Equalities Office (GEO) embraces flexible working. All posts are advertised on a flexible basis and GEO employees have always had the opportunity to request temporary or permanent changes to their working patterns at any time. This approach significantly reduces the need for GEO employees to make a statutory application for flexible working and we have no record of any such request having been made.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson grouped question UIN 205155 question first answered 17/07/2014 12:24:39 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

77241

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Flexible Working
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, how many women have made a statutory application to request flexible working in the Government Equalities Office; and how many of those applications have been granted.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	205155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government Equalities Office (GEO) embraces flexible working. All posts are advertised on a flexible basis and GEO employees have always had the opportunity to request temporary or permanent changes to their working patterns at any time. This approach significantly reduces the need for GEO employees to make a statutory application for flexible working and we have no record of any such request having been made.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson grouped question UIN 205147 question first answered 17/07/2014 12:24:39 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

77243

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Equality and Human Rights Commission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what the average salary was of (a) male and (b) female employees of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (i) of each ethnicity and (ii) at each grade for the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	205157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>The Equality and Human Rights Commission is an independent body and is responsible for its own staff management, including staff salaries. I have therefore asked the Chief Executive of the Commission to write to the honourable member with the information requested.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 17/07/2014 12:26:15 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

77745

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	Equality and Human Rights Commission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, how many non-permanent staff of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission are paid a daily sum of (a) £1,000 or more, (b) between £750 and £1,000, (c) between £500 and £750 and (d) between £250 and £500 inclusive of VAT for their work with that body.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	205575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>The Equality and Human Rights Commission is an independent body and is responsible for its own staff management, including non-permanent staff salaries. I have therefore asked the Chief Executive of the Commission to write to the honourable member with the information requested.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 17/07/2014 12:27:06 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

77488

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
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	Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, how many contracts the Government Equalities Office (a) has let and (b) plan to let that are worth (i) between £1 million and £3 million and (i) over £3 million since 2010; how much the Government Equalities Office has spent on monitoring each such contract; and how many officials in the Government Equalities Office monitor each contract.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	205370
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>Since 2010 the Government Equalities Office (GEO) has not let any contracts between £1 million and £3million and does not have any current plans to do so. The GEO has only let one contract over £3million since 2010 and does not have any current plans of further contracts of this value. Monitoring of the contract, which is in relation to the Equalities Advisory Support Service, is undertaken alongside other duties by a small team of officials; there is no resource or budget solely for the monitoring of this contract.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 21/07/2014 13:28:05 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

78218

registered interest
date	15/07/2014
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	Accountancy: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the auditing by accountancy firms of their appointment of women to their boards.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	206056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>Government regulations (effective from 1<sup>st</sup> October 2013) apply to quoted companies in the UK to disclose the numbers of men and women on boards, in senior management and in the business as a whole. This aims to help companies to spot areas of talent block within their own organisations.</p><p> </p><p>We follow a voluntary approach in the UK to increase the numbers of women on boards and engage closely with organisations who are active on building the pipeline of female talent such as the 30% Club.</p><p> </p><p>In 2012, the 30% Club carried out research with one of the leading global management consulting firms, McKinsey &amp; Company to aggregate results looking into the numbers of women in UK partnerships in Professional Services Firms. Their study made recommendations to help firms get more women to the top. Many of these firms including KPMG, Deloitte, Linklaters and PWC are members of the 30% Club (at Chairmen and CEO level) whose goals are to achieve better gender balance at all levels of an organisation.</p><p> </p><p>This approach complements the work and progress of the Lord Davies business-led initiative to achieve 25% of women on boards by 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 22/07/2014 08:34:51 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

78806

registered interest
date	17/07/2014
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	Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, how much the Government Equalities Office has spent on (a) plants and (b) wine in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	206587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government Equalities Office has not spent any money on plants, televisions or artwork over the past 5 years.</p><p> </p><p>The available information is in the table.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Expenditure on Catering and Refreshments</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Expenditure</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£3,666</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£3,328</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:</p><p>1. GEO’s transfers between Departments mean that the data is only accessible through a number of different legacy systems. Further detail could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p>2. Expenditure on wine is included in the figures above; it is not recorded separately.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson grouped question UIN 206584 question first answered 22/07/2014 12:29:34 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero