Question follow-through · 18184
Department for Business and Trade: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has a gender action plan.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 5 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 10 Dec 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has a gender action plan.
10 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Dec 2024
Answer published
This Government is committed to closing the gender pay gap.The Department for Business and Trade has recently finalised a Gender Pay Gap Action Plan in response to the 2024 gender pay gap findings which will be published as part of the Department’s annual...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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