Greg Mulholland – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2016-06-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 26 May 2016 to Question 38217, on his Department’s BME pay gap, where the information about this is held; and what estimate he has made of the cost of providing the information.

Penny Mordaunt

The Ministry of Defence does not capture and report data on hourly earnings, and therefore does not provide comparative data in this way.

The Department has recently published an Equal Pay Audit 2015 report which can be found at the following address:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mod-equal-pay-audit-report-2015

This Audit presents a comparison of male to female and White to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) annualised average salaries in the period 1 October 2014 to 1 October 2015. This meets the Department’s obligations under the Public Sector Equality Duty to provide information on its workforce identified by the Equality Act 2010.