Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate his Department has made of gender-based pay inequality in the education sector.

The Office for National Statistics’ latest Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2019 provisional data shows that the median pay gap in the UK between male and female teaching and education professionals is 7.5%.

‘Teaching and education professionals’ includes teaching staff across early years, schools, further education and higher education.

The Department is committed to tackling inequalities across the education sector. In October 2018 we published our statement of intent which sets out the Department’s commitment to promoting a diverse teaching workforce, the importance of addressing the gender pay gap and supporting women to progress in the workplace.