The government’s consultation on whether ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting should be made mandatory for large employers has now closed. I submitted a response in my capacity as a professional statistician with 7 years experience of helping employers to get to grips with pay gap reporting. My response was in two parts, a briefing note of the 9 statistical challenges that have to be confronted for a workable reporting system to be introduced and my answers to the 33 questions posed by the government in their consultation.
** The government published its response to the consultation on 25th March 2026 (link in next section) **
*** This post was updated on 9th June 2025 with links to my final response. Links to my draft response can be found at the end of this post. ***
