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Pay Gaps #32 – My Response to the Ethnicity & Disability Pay Gap Reporting Consultation

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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. ***

 

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Pay Gaps #30 – Why Disability Confident is the Template for Mandatory Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting

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In July 2023, the UK government’s finally published its response to its 2018 consultation on whether #ethnicity #paygap #reporting should be made mandatory for UK employers.  A number of paragraphs from this response were quoted in an article published at the time in The Voice newspaper.

I want to go through two of those paragraphs because they highlight what is wrong with the current debate. I think the debate can be reset in a more productive direction if campaigners and the government were to focus on Action 71 of the Inclusive Britain action plan instead of Action 16.  In short, those who wish to implement mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting should use existing Disability Confident reporting scheme as a template to build on and not copy and paste Gender Pay Gap Reporting.

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Pay Gaps #29 – Government Guidance on Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting – My thoughts

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Two months ago, the Department for Business & Trade (DfB&T) in collaboration with the Equality Hub (EqHub) and Race Disparity Unit (RDU) published Ethnicity pay reporting: guidance for employers.  This is “guidance for employers on how to measure, report on and address any ethnicity pay differences within their workforce” and fulfills Action 16 of the government’s Inclusive Britain action plan.  I was asked to write the draft version of this guidance and I have to confess to being disappointed with the final version published.  I will explain why I am disappointed and why I have decided to publish an edited version of my draft as well.

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Coronavirus #1 – Useful Data and Links

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Updated on 14th May 2020.  New and modified links are italicised.

The Coronavirus Pandemic is a worldwide challenge many of us will have not experienced before.  It is natural to want to seek information on the risks and in our world today, it has never been easier to find data, analyses and opinions.  Unfortunately, a lot of what you will read out there is either unhelpful or actively misleading.  As an independent statistician with 30 years experience of explaining statistics to non-statisticians, my contribution to this crisis will be to try and sort the good from the bad hence this post. [Read more…] about Coronavirus #1 – Useful Data and Links