PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Employment: Equality (4 October 2024)

Question Asked

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to enforce equal pay rights in the (a) public and (b) private sector.

Asked by:
Anna Dixon (Labour)

Answer

This Government is committed to ending pay discrimination at work. The plan to Make Work Pay includes clear action to strengthen the right to equal pay. We will put in place measures to ensure that outsourcing of services can no longer be used by employers to avoid paying equal pay, and improve enforcement by establishing an Equal Pay Regulatory and Enforcement Unit. As set out in the King’s Speech in July, the upcoming Equality (Race & Disability) Bill will also extend the right to make equal pay claims to ethnic minority people and disabled people. These steps will apply across both the public and private sectors.


Answered by:
Anneliese Dodds (Labour)
14 October 2024

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