Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of pay-freezes on staff of his Department who remain on legacy shift arrangements.

The Department conducts an annual policy equality impact assessment (PES) to assess the impact of the pay settlement covering all staff taking account of their protected characteristic, to determine whether any factors (including the exclusion of any group of staff such as those on legacy shift allowances) have detrimentally impacted staff when analysed by protected characteristic. The protected characteristics we analyse are: gender, ethnicity, disability and age.