Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what women's median income as a percentage of men's was from all sources including pay, pensions, benefits and tax credits for each year from 2010 to 2016.
We are not able to provide the information requested. However, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) publishes the UK gender pay gap figures annually. This measure includes all basic pay before deductions for PAYE, National Insurance, pension schemes, student loan repayments and voluntary deductions, but does not include benefits or tax credits:
Year | Overall GPG |
2010 | 19.8% |
2011 | 20.2% |
2012 | 19.6% |
2013 | 19.8% |
2014 | 19.2% |
2015 | 19.3% |
2016 | 18.1% |
To close the gender pay gap, the Government is introducing mandatory reporting for large employers in Great Britain from April 2017.