Department of Health: Equal Pay

(asked on 5th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his Department's transparency document entitled Gender Pay Gap Report 2016-2017, if he will set out the pay gap data for median, mean and bonus pay by (a) grade and (b) profession.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 10th January 2018

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

We are able to provide these figures at each effective grade for the Department and its Executive Agencies.

Mean Gender Pay Gap in Hourly Pay

14.2%

by

Grade

AA

Administrative Assistant

-2.5%

AO

Administrative Officer

-1.5%

EO

Executive Officer

0.8%

HEO

Higher Executive Officer

0.1%

SEO

Senior Executive Officer

1.7%

FS

Fast Stream

-6.4%

G7

Grade 7

1.9%

G6

Grade 6

1.7%

SA

Special Advisors

-

SCS1

SCS Pay Band 1

3.3%

SCS2

SCS Pay Band 2

7.2%

SCS3

SCS Pay Band 3

16.6%

SCS4

SCS Pay Band 4

-25.0%

Median Gender Pay Gap in Hourly Pay

13.3%

by

Grade

AA

Administrative Assistant

-9.4%

AO

Administrative Officer

-0.1%

EO

Executive Officer

-0.2%

HEO

Higher Executive Officer

0.0%

SEO

Senior Executive Officer

2.7%

FS

Fast Stream

-0.1%

G7

Grade 7

2.6%

G6

Grade 6

1.6%

SA

Special Advisors

-

SCS1

SCS Pay Band 1

3.0%

SCS2

SCS Pay Band 2

5.7%

SCS3

SCS Pay Band 3

18.0%

SCS4

SCS Pay Band 4

-25.0%

Mean Bonus Gender Pay Gap

33.1%

by

Grade

AA

Administrative Assistant

84.5%

AO

Administrative Officer

30.2%

EO

Executive Officer

-0.2%

HEO

Higher Executive Officer

5.1%

SEO

Senior Executive Officer

0.8%

FS

Fast Stream

-9.4%

G7

Grade 7

9.5%

G6

Grade 6

-13.6%

SA

Special Advisors

-

SCS1

SCS Pay Band 1

24.5%

SCS2

SCS Pay Band 2

-23.0%

SCS3

SCS Pay Band 3

-45.0%

SCS4

SCS Pay Band 4

-

Median Bonus Gender Pay Gap

10.4%

by

Grade

AA

Administrative Assistant

0.0%

AO

Administrative Officer

9.0%

EO

Executive Officer

46.7%

HEO

Higher Executive Officer

35.7%

SEO

Senior Executive Officer

-59.1%

FS

Fast Stream

-38.5%

G7

Grade 7

0.0%

G6

Grade 6

8.1%

SA

Special Advisors

-

SCS1

SCS Pay Band 1

0.0%

SCS2

SCS Pay Band 2

0.0%

SCS3

SCS Pay Band 3

0.0%

SCS4

SCS Pay Band 4

-

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