BBC Pay Debate
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Angus Brendan MacNeil
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(6 years, 4 months ago)
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Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar) (SNP)
Carrie Gracie is indeed to be praised for her stand on gender pay equality and for her comments more generally on pay equality. In her interview last night on “Channel 4 News”, she stated that her actions were not a personal plea for more money; indeed, she said that there may need to be a pay cut for all at her grade at the BBC to combat the pay inequality, which has risen in many organisations, including the BBC, over the past few decades. Is it not time that, as well as ensuring 1:1 gender pay ratios, the Government moved to ensure the fairness of ratios between the top and the bottom in many organisations such as the BBC, banks and many other companies? Wage inequality in this country has become staggering in the past few decades.
Matt Hancock
I welcome calls for pay restraint in public bodies from all quarters, including from the hon. Gentleman.