Asked by: Keith Vaz (Labour - Leicester East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure gender equality in civil service salaries.
Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham
The median gender pay gap for full-time civil servants has narrowed since 2010 but we must continue to press to narrow the gap further, including by reminding departments of their clear legal obligations on equal pay and conducting equal pay audits. Salaries for new appointments must be justified on the basis of the skills and experience necessary to do the job. For staff below the Senior Civil Service (SCS), this is for individual departments to manage. For the centrally-managed SCS, pay proposals have regard to the impact on women.
More widely, the Government is concerned that a long-standing majority of women in the overall civil service, does not translate into a similar proportion in the SCS. I have commissioned work to address this issue.
Asked by: Keith Vaz (Labour - Leicester East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Government contracts have been given to Airwave; and what the (a) value and (b) duration is of each such contract.
Answered by Nick Hurd
Since January 2011, as part of the Government's transparency programme, details of contracts above the value of £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder at:
https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder
Asked by: Keith Vaz (Labour - Leicester East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much sugar was purchased for No. 10 Downing Street in 2013.
Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham
The Prime Minister's Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office.
This information is not held.