Oral QuestionSpeaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission

“To ask the hon. Member for Lancaster and Fleetwood, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, whether the Committee has made a recent assessment of the effectiveness of the Commission’s oversight of political finance regulation and electoral law in the UK.”

Tabled: 24 November 2022Answered: 1 December 2022

Answering Minister

the hon. Member for Lancaster and Fleetwood, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission

Answer from Hansard

The Minister for Women and Equalities (Anneliese Dodds)

Women’s equality and economic growth go hand in hand. Because the progress on closing the gender pay gap stalled under the last Government, as part of the Employment Rights Bill we are requiring large employers to publish gender pay gap action plans alongside their figures to show what they are doing to tackle pay disparity.