David Hanson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2016-02-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the average hourly earnings of (a) female, (b) male, (c) full-time and (d) part-time employees of her Department were in each of the last five years.

George Eustice

The table below provides details of the average hourly earnings of each group of employees in the core-Department as at 30^th June 2015 in each of the last five years.

The difference in hourly rate of pay for male and female staff can be explained by a greater proportion of male staff at the higher grades.

A recent equal pay review, analysing pay by grade, found that there were no significant equal pay differences based on gender.