Levels of Inequality in Wales

Part of 2. Questions to the Leader of the House and Chief Whip – in the Senedd at 3:09 pm on 14 November 2018.

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Photo of Julie James Julie James Labour 3:09, 14 November 2018

Yes, indeed, and, again, as part of the economic action plan in the private sector, and as part of our ask from our main companies in Wales, we are asking that people sign up to the eradication of the gender pay gap. We're working very hard to ensure that the Welsh Government has no such pay gap, and, again, with my colleague, the Cabinet Secretary for public services, to include other public services in that. I've had extensive discussions with the Cabinet Secretary for health in order to drive the gender pay gap out of public services in Wales, because we should be the exemplar employers in this field; we ought to be able to show the way. But we have of course included it in our economic action plan to ensure we have the right ethos in Wales, and we have signed up, as I said in response to Janet Finch-Saunders, to the EHRC's Working Forward programme as well.