Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the gender pension gap in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry and (c) England; and what steps she is taking to tackle the gender pension gap in each of those areas.

The Department does not hold data in the form requested.

Through automatic enrolment, we are enabling more women to build up a workplace pension; participation among eligible women working in the private sector has risen from 40% in 2012 to 86% in 2019, which is equal to men. The Government remains committed to addressing this issue and we are making progress, including through promoting women’s progression in workplaces; the introduction of shared parental leave and mandatory gender pay gap reporting.