Living Wage
(asked on 5th December 2014) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of (a) his Department's staff and (b) staff working for companies contracted by his Department who are paid less than the Living Wage are (i) white British and (ii) from an ethnic minority background.
The table below shows the number of civilian staff, proportion and their gender, employed by the Ministry of Defence and its Agencies who are paid less than the rate defined by the Living Wage Foundation (LWF) as a living wage.
Department/Agency | Numbers paid less than LWF London Rate of £9.15 per hour | Numbers paid less than LWF National Rate of £7.85 per hour | Number of Female Staff | Number of Male staff | Number of staff as a proportion of the civilian workforce |
Ministry of Defence | 50 | 900 | 420 | 530 | 2.1% |
United Kingdom Hydrographic Office | 0 | 20 | ~ | 20 | 2.0% |
Defence Support Group | 0 | 50 | 10 | 40 | 1.79% |
Defence Science & Technology Laboratory | 0 | 50 | 20 | 40 | 1.42% |
Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.
Figures are as at 8 December 2014.
~ = less than 5.
Contracted workers’ rates of pay, where paid by their parent company or recruitment agency, are not visible to the Department. Neither are the rates of staff working for companies contracted by my department or its agencies.
The information in respect of ethnicity is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.