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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Pay (13 December 2016)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the average hourly earnings are of (a) female, (b) male, (c) BAME and (d) non-BAME employees of his Department.

Asked by:
Clive Lewis (Labour)

Answer

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) was created on 14 July 2016. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) were merged to create this new department.

The median salaries for male and females in the table below are published on the Office for National Statistics website every October. This relates to information as at 31 March 2016.

BIS

DECC

Male

£39,630

£48,900

Female

£35,410

£36,160

The median salaries of BAME and non-BAME staff in the table below have been calculated using data as at October 2016. These figures reflect the different levels of seniority of the employees that have provided their ethnicity information. This information is declared by individual employees on a voluntary basis.

BIS

DECC

BAME

£32,090

£36,142

Non-BAME

£48,192

£49,420

Please note; the information supplied is based on staff working 36 or 37 hours a week (dependent on contract and location).


Answered by:
Margot James (Conservative)
16 December 2016

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