Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what the percentage gap in earnings is between the pay of full-time staff in the highest pay grade in his Department and average full-time pay in that Department.

Government departments do not publish details of the salary of their highest to lowest paid employees. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) do, however, publish the salary ratio of highest to median earners for each Civil Service organisation. These ratios are published annually as part of Civil Service Statistics and can be found on the Office for National Statistics website:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/bulletins/civilservicestatistics/2016

As the Department for International Trade (DIT) is newly formed, we have not had the opportunity to contribute to the ONS publication. DIT’s statistics will be included in the next release, due for publication in March 2017.