Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average hourly earnings of (a) female, (b) male, (c) full-time and (d) part-time employees of his Department were in each of the last five years.
The following table shows the average hourly rates of pay for all Civil Servants in the Department by gender and by working pattern for the last five years. The average hourly rate calculation uses net hours for both full-time and part-time staff.
| March 2012 | March 2013 | March 2014 | March 2015 | January 2016 |
Female | £22.34 | £22.23 | £22.23 | £22.45 | £22.48 |
Male | £25.37 | £25.41 | £21.69 | £24.40 | £24.56 |
Part-time | £22.95 | £22.64 | £23.60 | £24.08 | £23.95 |
Full-time | £23.74 | £23.75 | £23.12 | £23.11 | £23.21 |