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Written Question
Home Office: Pay
Tuesday 10th January 2017

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

Written Question
Home Office: Pay
Tuesday 20th December 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

Written Question
Home Office: Equal Pay
Thursday 15th December 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.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 05 Dec 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"Has the Home Secretary had any discussions with her Cabinet colleagues about the pull factor of the increase in the living wage and the impact it may have on immigration?..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 12 Apr 2016
Policing and Crime Bill (Seventh sitting)

"I want to speak briefly to the new clause to say that I hope the Minister will listen to the arguments being made. It is a hugely important issue. I pay tribute to the work that she has done on violent and coercive behaviour.

This is not an issue that …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 12 Apr 2016
Policing and Crime Bill (Seventh sitting)

"An interesting point in the case of terrorism is that many—not all—people accused of terrorism offences will have dual nationality and more than one passport. Has there been any thought as to how that would be discovered by the police, if the information was not volunteered, and what provisions may …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Mar 2016
Breast Ironing

"I will start with three letters: FGM. Thanks to the tireless campaigning of charities such as Daughters of Eve and Dahlia, we now know that those letters are an abbreviation for: the abhorrent practice of female genital mutilation. For any colleague who still struggles to understand FGM, I cannot put …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Mar 2016
Breast Ironing

"That is the point, but it is a mistaken belief, and one that has no place in any society, let alone ours here in Britain.

The words “culture”, “tradition” or “religion” come up when people try to explain this absurdly harmful practice, but as in the case of FGM, these …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Mar 2016
Breast Ironing

"I will come to that. I hope that the Minister will say what steps we can take to send the message out loud and clear from this House of Commons that the practice is completely unacceptable, whether it happens in London, Birmingham or any other city, or whether young girls …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Mar 2016
Breast Ironing

"I agree absolutely. This idea that puberty, the natural development of a woman’s adult body and the natural journey to maturity can be violated as part of some mistaken or bizarre belief system has no place in our society.

As with FGM, the practice of breast ironing is hidden because …..."
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