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Earning data for Scotland is published by Office for National Statistics in Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2016 https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/2016provisionalresults

and can be accessed from nomis www.nomisweb.co.uk.

Table 1 shows the median gross weekly full-time pay by gender, adjusted for inflation (at 2016 prices), for 1999 to 2016 .

Table 1: Median full-time gross weekly pay (£) by gender, Scotland and the UK: 1999-2016 (Adjusted for inflation, 2016 prices)

Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, ONS.

Note: Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence

Pay includes overtime

Information contained in this PQ is median weekly earnings for full-time employees. This measure is the main focus of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2016 Bulletin published by ONS on 26 October 2016. Information is also publically available based on hourly and annual earnings, for part-time and all employees.

Earnings data have been adjusted for inflation to 2016 prices using Consumer Prices Index, CPI (all items): 1998-2016, ONS (Published 18 October 2016)

The Scottish Government does not hold this information.

However, according to the Scottish Living Wage Accreditation Initiative, there are 469 Scotland headquartered accredited Living Wage employers in the Private Sector. They estimate that these organisations employ approximately 118,000 people and that, of these, at least 3000 employees have benefited from an uplift in their wages as a result of accreditation.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde continue to have access to orthopaedic activity at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital. In 2017-18 Greater Glasgow and Clyde have been allocated 560 joint replacements and 170 non joint procedures at the Golden Jubilee for their patients.

I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-08758 on 8 May 2017. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx

The information requested is already in the public domain in the table entitled Business Pledge – Statistical Overview – February 2017, a copy of which has been placed in the Scottish Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib number 57653). This material is updated and published on a quarterly basis. There are currently 350 companies listed on the Pledge website.

The Scottish Government uses various official data sources to assess these issues

The use of reported Zero Hours Contracts in Scotland’s labour market is lower than in the UK as whole. (Scotland 2.2%, UK2.8%).  

The ONS publish information on Zero hours contracts available at the following link: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/pe.opleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/articles/contractsthatdonotguaranteeaminimumnumberofhours/mar2017

In 2016 Scotland remains the best performing of all four UK countries with the highest proportion of employees paid the Living Wage or more (79.9%) and the number of Scots-based Accredited Living Wage Employers is now over 785.

Information on earnings and the living wage are, sourced from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings and published by the Scottish Government at: http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Labour-Market/Earnings

In the period, Jan 2016-Dec 2016 130,000 employees held temporary positions (5.8% of all employees), a decrease from 136,000 (6% of all employees) in Jan 2015–Dec 2015. Information on temporary employment is published by the ONS in Table HI11-3 published at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/datasets/headlinelabourforcesurveyindicatorsforscotlandhi11

The Scottish Government is continuing to consider, and to discuss with key stakeholders, the matters raised in the consultation responses. However, the Scottish Government is not in a position to issue a final response to its consultation as the drafting of the Order in Council (OiC), which sets out the powers of the employment tribunals to be devolved, is in the hands of the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and is not complete. In addition, the Scottish Government has not yet had sight of any proposed OiC provisions relating to the devolution of specified functions of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT). As a number of the consultation responses have highlighted, there needs to be an appropriate ‘fit’ between what is proposed in relation to the Employment Tribunals (ET) and the EAT and therefore a significant piece of the jigsaw is missing. Scottish Government will share further drafts of the ET provisions and will consult on the provisions relating to the EAT, once available.

The UK Government’s Public Sector Gender Pay Gap Reporting Regulations came into force on 31 March 2017. The Regulations allow public authorities 12 months to publish their gender pay gap information. Until public authorities have undertaken this process and the results are published and can be evaluated, it is not possible to say whether this reporting mechanism will give a comprehensive and robust picture of the public sector gender pay gap. The Scottish Government will consider the results from the first year’s reporting, and working with the Equality and Human Rights Commission, factor this into the areas covered in the planned review of the Public Sector Equality Duty Scottish Specific Duties, which will begin later this year.

The Scottish Government will abolish fees for employment tribunals once it is clear how the transfer of powers and responsibilities will work.

In line with commitments in both the Labour Market Strategy and the 2016 Programme for Government, we have established the Employment Tribunals Stakeholders’ Forum, which will help frame how we can best use our new powers around employment tribunals to ensure that any new system in Scotland, based on the abolition of fees, will meet the needs of employees, businesses and society.

The most recently published estimates for the 2016 gender pay gap for Scotland based on median hourly earnings (excluding overtime) show that :

The overall gender pay gap for full-time and part-time workers in Scotland is 15.6%.

For part-time workers, the gender pay gap is -9.6%.

For full-time workers, the gender pay gap is 6.2%.

Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, ONS

Note: The gender pay gap is calculated as the difference between men’s and women’s median hourly earnings as a percentage of men’s median hourly earnings. A negative figure indicates that female earnings exceed male earnings

Estimates of the gender pay gap for all and full-time employees, can be found on the Scottish Government web site at the following location:

http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Labour-Market/Earnings/ASHE-SGTables

Table 2.1: Gender Pay Gap – Median Full-time Hourly Earnings (excluding overtime) by Country, 1997-2016

Table 3.1: Gender Pay Gap – Median Hourly Earnings (excluding overtime) - All employees by Country 1997-2016.

The gender pay gap, based on hourly earnings (excluding overtime) for part-time employees is published by the Office for National Statistics and can be found at the following location:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/adhocs/006269annualsurveyofhoursandearningsashegenderpaygapbycountryapril1997to2016