John Redwood
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(8 years, 4 months ago)
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Kate Green
My right hon. Friend is right. I suspect that neither of us has 70 years to wait for the gap to be equalised. I shall return to that point later.
John Redwood (Wokingham) (Con)
Why did not the last Labour Government solve this problem?
Kate Green
We did an awful lot better than the coalition Government and this Government. [Interruption.] Yes, we did! The speed of reduction under the Labour Government in the past decade meant that the gender pay gap came down by around a third, but that progress has sadly not been maintained under Conservative-led Governments.