Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total pay bill was for (a) male and (b) female employees in his Department in 2015-16; and what the per capita spend from that pay bill for each man and woman was in that year.

The Treasury does not hold the information in the format as requested however there are a number of published transparency reports that confirm the female and male proportions and respective median pay levels. These are outlined below.

The total 2015-16 pay costs and average number of permanent persons employed by the Treasury can be found on the Annual report and accounts, page 72, at the following link www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-treasury-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016.

The Office for National Statistics publishes an annual employment return for each department on various topics such as gender, ethnicity, disability status, earnings and location of the Civil Service workforce.

This information can be found on the Office for National Statistics website. The 2015-16 data can be found at the link below

www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/civilservicestatistics.

Table 24 represents mean earnings for employees by responsibility and gender pay difference.

Table 36 displays an average of male and female employed by the department.