Ben Howlett – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Women and Equalities

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ben Howlett on 2015-11-19.

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department is taking to eliminate the gender pay gap.

Caroline Dinenage

The gender pay gap currently stands at 19.2%, the lowest on record. We are determined to accelerate this progress. To eliminate the gender pay gap within a generation, the Government is requiring larger employers to publish information about the pay and bonuses for men and women; extending our plans for gender pay gap reporting to the public sector; and working with business to have 33% of women on boards by 2020 and eliminate all-male boards in the FTSE 350.