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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what information her Department holds on the gender pay gap at the BBC in each of the last five years.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport does not hold any information on the gender pay gap at the BBC for the last five years. The BBC has published the pay of top talent and is due to publish its first mandatory gender pay gap reporting figures by April next year.