Question follow-through · 107740
Equal Pay: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the ethnic pay gap reporting framework will require employers to record and report pay gap data for Jewish and Sikh employees as distinct ethnic groups.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 22 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 29 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the ethnic pay gap reporting framework will require employers to record and report pay gap data for Jewish and Sikh employees as distinct ethnic groups.
26 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Jan 2026
Answer published
Our consultation on ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting closed in June 2025. The consultation sought views on the proposed approach, including whether ethnicity data should be collected following the Government Statistical Service (GSS) Ethnicity H...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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