Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the transparency data, DCMS gender pay gap 2016-2017, published on 18 December 2017, if she will publish the pay gap data for ordinary pay and bonus pay by (a) grade and (b) profession.

As part of the new legal requirement for public authorities to publish their gender pay gap every year, DCMS published their figures in December 2017:

Splitting these figures by grade gives the following breakdown:

Mean gender pay gap

Median gender pay gap

Narrative on the mean and median pay gap: As a department most of our staff are concentrated at HEO/SEO and Grade 6/Grade 7; this represents around 70% of the total workforce. At SCS level a number of highly specialised Digital roles, predominantly males, has led to the gap increasing at this level.

Mean bonus pay gap

Median bonus pay gap

Narrative on the mean and median bonus gap: Overall of all the men that received bonus payments 52% received an in-year award only, for women this was 44%. These payments are generally lower than the end of year award payment and where there is a median bonus pay gap, this is because the median point falls within the in-year award pay range rather than in the end of year figure.

Narrative on Professions: DCMS does not hold profession information for every employee so this breakdown is not possible.