Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the transparency data, MHRA gender pay gap report: 2016 to 2017, published on 18 December 2017, if he will break down the pay gap data on (a) ordinary, (b) hourly and (c) bonus pay by profession.

In accordance with the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties and Public Authorities) Regulations 2017, the Department published in December 2017 gender pay gap figures including mean gender pay gap in hourly pay, median gender pay gap in hourly pay, mean bonus gender pay gap, and median bonus gender pay gap in the publication Gender Pay Gap Report 2016-2017. These figures related to the core Department and its executive agencies, including the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

The MHRA does not centrally hold any information on individuals’ professions so are unable to provide any gender pay gap information by profession.