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If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.
If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.
What recent assessment she has made of the effect of the covid-19 lockdown on women.
What recent assessment she has made of the effect of the covid-19 lockdown on women.
Women are affected by the covid-19 lockdown in different ways. Women shoulder greater caring responsibilities and are balancing work with childcare. Some women need immediate access to reproductive and maternity services. They are often financially vulnerable, and financial vulnerability will be exacerbated by the lockdown. Every Government Department is playing its part in considering how the virus and the lockdown are affecting all vulnerable groups of people.
What recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals on civil partnerships for heterosexual couples.
What recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals on civil partnerships for heterosexual couples.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to Answer of 23 November 2017 to Question 902535, on Equal Pay, what recent assessment she has made of the effect of requiring all larger employers to publish their gender pay gap on reducing that pay gap.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to Answer of 23 November 2017 to Question 902535, on Equal Pay, what recent assessment she has made of the effect of requiring all larger employers to publish their gender pay gap on reducing that pay gap.
The government is determined to close the gender pay gap, which is currently at 18.4%. A full assessment was published that set out the expected impact of new regulations which introduced mandatory gender pay gap reporting:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2016/245/pdfs/ukia_20160245_en.pdf.
The department recently published research on the action larger employers are taking to close the gender pay gaps within their organisations:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gender-pay-gap-employers-action-and-understanding.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment the Government has made of the principal reasons for the current size of the gender wage gap.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment the Government has made of the principal reasons for the current size of the gender wage gap.
The government is determined to close the gender pay gap, which is currently at 18.4%. Research commissioned by the Government Equalities Office indicates that the biggest driver of the gender pay gap is women’s reduced labour market participation.
The research can be accessed here: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/files/33083313/FULL_TEXT.PDF.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what the evidential basis is for the Government using positive action to reduce the gender wage gap.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what the evidential basis is for the Government using positive action to reduce the gender wage gap.
The government is determined to close the gender pay gap, which is currently at 18.4%. Research commissioned by the Government Equalities Office indicates that the biggest driver of the gender pay gap is women’s reduced labour market participation.
The research can be accessed here: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/files/33083313/FULL_TEXT.PDF.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of maternity leave on the gender wage gap?
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of maternity leave on the gender wage gap?
The government is determined to closing the gender pay gap, which is currently at 18.4%.
The calculation of the national gender pay gap, based on the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, does not include employees whose earnings are affected by absence from work, such as through maternity leave. Such employees should therefore not artificially inflate the gender pay gap.
However, evidence suggests that more broadly, women’s reduced labour market participation is the biggest known driver of the gender pay gap, which is in part, a result of women taking on the bulk of caring responsibilities.
The UK has one of the most generous Maternity Leave offers in the world, and we have also introduced Shared Parental Leave in order to provide parents with more choice and flexibility in how they divide care between them in the first year of their child’s life.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of proposing gender quotas for businesses.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of proposing gender quotas for businesses.
We believe that each country has a unique business environment. We are aware that quotas have driven progress in representation of women in a number of countries such as Norway, France and Italy. However, in the UK we have made excellent progress using a voluntary, business-led approach; for example we have seen the number of women on FTSE 350 boards more than double since 2010. We also have only nine all male boards remaining in the FTSE 350, and none in the FTSE 100. This is why we support the work of the Hampton-Alexander review, which sets voluntary targets for FTSE 350 companies to have 33% women on their boards and in their senior leadership positions by 2020. Currently, we believe this is the most effective approach and want to work collaboratively with businesses to ensure that progress on this agenda continues. We will continue to keep this approach under review.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what discussions she has had with the House of Commons Commission on taking steps to ensure that the Parliamentary estate is fully accessible to people of differing physical ability.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what discussions she has had with the House of Commons Commission on taking steps to ensure that the Parliamentary estate is fully accessible to people of differing physical ability.
I have not had any such discussions. However, officials from the Government Equalities Office would be happy to discuss the reasonable adjustment requirements of the Equality Act 2010 with the Commission, if this would be helpful.
If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.
If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on (a) gender equality, (b) the rights of disabled people and (b) the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on (a) gender equality, (b) the rights of disabled people and (b) the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
The UK has some of the strongest equality legislation and policies in the world. This will continue to be the case after we leave the EU.
Domestic equality policy has always been set by Governments in this country and this will remain so. Many of the policies that we have in place go beyond what is required by the EU. The Government Equalities Office will continue to follow an ambitious programme of work to ensure that everyone has a fair chance and that no one is discriminated against because of their background.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities what steps the Government is taking to promote anti-slavery day.
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To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities what steps the Government is taking to promote anti-slavery day.
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I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Home Department.
Ministers from the Inter-Departmental Ministerial Group on human trafficking, including myself, undertook a range of activities to raise awareness of this important issue.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities how many times she has attended the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Human Trafficking in the last 18 months.
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To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities how many times she has attended the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Human Trafficking in the last 18 months.
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The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Minister for Women and Equalities, my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May), has not attended.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities what assessment she has made of inequalities faced by Christians in the UK.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities what assessment she has made of inequalities faced by Christians in the UK.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities whether she has a policy on the proportion of Ministers who are (a) women and (b) state educated.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities whether she has a policy on the proportion of Ministers who are (a) women and (b) state educated.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities what assessment she has made of the implications for the Government's policy on equalities of the provision of care for (a) adult and (b) child victims of human trafficking.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities what assessment she has made of the implications for the Government's policy on equalities of the provision of care for (a) adult and (b) child victims of human trafficking.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equality what recent assessment she has made of the barriers to women's participation in politics.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equality what recent assessment she has made of the barriers to women's participation in politics.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equality what recent representation she has received on the wearing of burqas in public.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equality what recent representation she has received on the wearing of burqas in public.