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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Philip Davies Excerpts
Thursday 8th December 2016

(8 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Justine Greening Portrait Justine Greening
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It is an important report, and we have taken time to consider it carefully. The hon. Lady will be aware that we laid gender pay gap regulations before the House in recent days, and we will be publishing that report very shortly.

Philip Davies Portrait Philip Davies (Shipley) (Con)
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Are the Government as committed to eliminating the part-time gender pay gap as they are to eliminating the full-time gender pay gap?

Justine Greening Portrait Justine Greening
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We want that to take place. The full-time gender pay gap has never been narrower than it is today, but it is important that we look beyond that and understand that people working part time have the same right to no gender pay gap.