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Department for Business and Trade: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has a gender action plan.

answeredDepartment for Business and Trade

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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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  1. 5 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has a gender action plan.

  2. 10 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 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...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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