Question follow-through · 10958

Equal Pay: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring that companies (a) record and (b) publish ethnicity pay gap data.

answeredWomen and Equalities

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Answering body
Women and Equalities
Tabled
23 Oct 2024
Target answer date
28 Oct 2024
Answer
31 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring that companies (a) record and (b) publish ethnicity pay gap data.

  2. 28 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 31 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    The King’s Speech announced our intention to publish draft legislation this session that will introduce mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting for large employers (those with 250 or more employees).Pay gap reporting can help businesses better understand th...

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