Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department plans to mark the centenary of women getting the right to vote in 1918.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The Government is funding a programme of activity in England to mark this anniversary, under the leadership of the Government Equalities Office. Programme themes include “celebrate”, “inspire” and “remember” to increase national awareness and mark 100 years since women got the right to vote. They also include “educate” to increase young people’s knowledge of UK democracy and its importance, and increase their democratic participation. The final theme is “participate” to aspire to achieve gender parity in local and national politics by the centenary of the Equal Franchise Act by 2028.
The Cabinet Office is helping to deliver this programme by leading on a number of projects under the “educate” theme. These are aimed at young people aged between 13 and 16 and at tackling barriers to their democratic participation. Planned projects include developing a secondary schools resource, working with the Department for Education, and a scheme to recruit and train youth democracy ambassadors. We are also developing a pack with ideas and materials for parliamentarians to engage young people, particularly those who are disengaged with our democratic processes.
Within the Cabinet Office we are planning an events programme throughout 2018 to commemorate the centenary and champion equality, helping to ensure we make the Civil Service and Cabinet Office ever more inclusive.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department plans to mark the centenary of women getting the right to vote in 1918.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The Government is funding a programme of activity in England to mark this anniversary, under the leadership of the Government Equalities Office. Programme themes include “celebrate”, “inspire” and “remember” to increase national awareness and mark 100 years since women got the right to vote. They also include “educate” to increase young people’s knowledge of UK democracy and its importance, and increase their democratic participation. The final theme is “participate” to aspire to achieve gender parity in local and national politics by the centenary of the Equal Franchise Act by 2028.
The Cabinet Office is helping to deliver this programme by leading on a number of projects under the “educate” theme. These are aimed at young people aged between 13 and 16 and at tackling barriers to their democratic participation. Planned projects include developing a secondary schools resource, working with the Department for Education, and a scheme to recruit and train youth democracy ambassadors. We are also developing a pack with ideas and materials for parliamentarians to engage young people, particularly those who are disengaged with our democratic processes.
Within the Cabinet Office we are planning an events programme throughout 2018 to commemorate the centenary and champion equality, helping to ensure we make the Civil Service and Cabinet Office ever more inclusive.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office , whether the inquiry led by Sir Martin Moore-Bick into the Grenfell Tower fire considered the socio-economic duty in Section 1 of the Equality Act 2010; and what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the implementation of Section 1 of that Act in relation to what happened at Grenfell Tower.
Answered by David Lidington
The Grenfell Tower Inquiry is considering a range of issues in relation to the Grenfell Tower fire. It hopes to complete its initial report, focussing on the events of the night of 14 June 2017, in autumn 2018.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish in bands of £25,000 the number of (a) men and (b) women employed in the Civil Service who earn over £100,000 per annum.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The Civil Service already discloses a significant amount of senior pay data. In the annual release of Civil Service Statistics the Office for National Statistics publishes a range of detailed pay information, including: numbers of staff by responsibility level and gender, median and mean salaries by gender, gender pay gap data, the number of staff earning over £100,000 and other pay information. The latest release is available at:
In addition, since 2010 the Government has published an annual list of individuals in departments, agencies and Non-departmental Public Bodies earning £150,000 and above. Departments also publish organograms every six months that include individualised salary information for their most senior staff.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made to the proportion of rapes in England and Wales which were unreported in each of the last five years.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.