Written question WQ85920

We are using the levers we have to promote fair work, reduce gender inequality in work and deliver against our national milestone to eliminate the pay gap for gender, disability and ethnicity by 2050. We are promoting real living wage accreditation and adoption and we are working with social partners to improve working conditions in specific sectors, like social care and retail, where a disproportionate number of workers are women on low pay. Delivering our £43 million commitment to introduce the real living wage in social care has already provided a wage uplift to many women workers on low-pay. More broadly, we continue to take forward the priorities set out in our Advancing Gender Equality Action Plan, deliver employability and skills interventions that support in work progression and fund Chwarae Teg, who provide excellent advice and support to individuals and organisations.