{"value":{"id":1663203,"askingMemberId":4753,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2023-10-13T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2023-10-17T00:00:00","uin":"201057","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of gender-based pay inequality among firefighters in England.","answeringBodyId":1,"answeringBodyName":"Home Office","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4503,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2023-10-20T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The Home Office does not hold this information centrally. The Equality Act 2010 gives women and men a right to equal pay for equal work.</p><p>Setting firefighter pay is the responsibility of employers, working through the National Joint Council. The Home Office plays no role in the negotiation or funding of firefighter pay.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Fire and Rescue Services: Pay","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1663203","method":"GET"}]}