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Equal Pay: Disability and Ethnic Groups

Asked by Mike WoodConservativeWomen and EqualitiesTabled Answered 27 January 2026UIN 106526

The question

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what her planned timetable is for the consultation and implementation of ethnicity and disability pay reporting; and whether she has produced an Impact Assessment.

Answered by Seema Malhotra

As set out in our manifesto and in the King’s Speech last July, the government remains committed to introducing mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting for large employers.

Our consultation on ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting closed on 10 June. Good progress has been made in analysing the responses and developing our policy and legislative approach.

The regulatory impact assessment for these measures has been produced.

We will publish the Government response to the ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting consultation in due course .

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