Question follow-through · 12045

Equal Pay: Disability and Ethnic Groups

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what priority the Government has assigned to extending pay gap reporting beyond gender to include race and disability.

answeredWomen and Equalities

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Answering body
Women and Equalities
Tabled
23 Jun 2026
Target answer date
25 Jun 2026
Answer
1 Jul 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what priority the Government has assigned to extending pay gap reporting beyond gender to include race and disability.

  2. 25 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 1 Jul 2026

    Answer published

    We will bring ethnicity and disability pay gap legislation forward as soon as parliamentary time allows. In March 2026 we published the government response to the mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting consultation, which included indicative...

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