Asked by: Jake Berry (Conservative - Rossendale and Darwen)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the percentage gap in earnings is between the pay of full-time staff in the highest pay grade in her Department and average full-time pay in that Department.
Answered by Sarah Newton
As at the 31st March 2016 the percentage gap in earnings between the highest paid and median full-time pay in the Home Office expressed as a percentage of the highest paid employee earnings is 83.1%.
The most recent data is published in theHome Office Annual Report (ARA) and can be found on the gov.uk website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016
Asked by: Jake Berry (Conservative - Rossendale and Darwen)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the percentage gap in earnings is between the highest-paid and lowest-paid full-time employee in her Department.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The information requested is available in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts (ARA). The ARA is published on the gov.uk website and can be found via this link - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016
Asked by: Jake Berry (Conservative - Rossendale and Darwen)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to publish information on the gender pay gap among its employees.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The Home Office has reported mean and median gender pay by gender to the Office for National Statistics who then publish data. The Home Office will meet the new legislative requirement to publish information on the gender pay gap by April 2018.