Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 49 of her Department's Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, what steps she has taken to tackle the increase in the mean gender pay gap in her Department between 2020 and 2021.

Following actions that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport set out in our gender pay gap report in 2021, the department’s mean gender pay gap reduced from 5.7% in 2021 to 3.3% in 2022.