UK Government launches consultation on ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting
- Area of Work: Policy and Research
- Type: News Item
- Published: 9th April 2025
This consultation is seeking views on how to introduce mandatory ethnicity and disability pay reporting for large employers.
Currently, most ethnic minority groups earn on average less than their White British peers. Similarly, while there has been growth in employment rates for disabled people in recent years, disabled people have, on average, lower incomes than non-disabled people.
To address these issues, the UK Government has launched a consultation to gather views on introducing mandatory ethnicity and disability pay reporting for large employers with 250 employees or more. The consultation will also ask how the measures should be implemented.
The responses to the consultation will inform and shape the Equality (Race and Disability) Bill, as announced in the Labour Party’s Manifesto and the King’s Speech.
The consultation is open to anyone interested in these issues. Views are particularly welcome from those who may be most affected by the different measures, including:
- Disabled people’s organisations
- Employers
- Public sector bodies
- Race and disability stakeholders
- People from ethnic minority groups
- Disabled people
The consultation closes at 11:59pm on 10 June 2025. You can submit your responses online: Equality (Race and Disability) Bill consultation survey
Please email equalitybill@cabinetoffice.gov.uk if:
- you would like to respond via email
- you have any other enquiries specifically relating to this consultation including requests for the document in an alternative format
Read the full consultation document here.
End of page.
You may also like:
Subscribe to receive future editions of the human rights newsletter.
Continue readingThis call comes after revelations of overuse of restraint and forced injections at adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit, Skye House.
Continue readingScotland's new national suicide prevention public awareness campaign and website launch.
Continue readingNHS Scotland Operational Improvement Plan sets out actions to improve aspects of healthcare delivery.
Continue readingThese moves will plunge thousands of disabled people into hardship, and threaten Scotland’s devolved system.
Continue readingRead a statement from our Chief Officer, Sara Redmond, on the recent social security announcement from the UK government.
Continue readingCould you help shape the future of Human Rights in Scotland? Apply to join the SNAP2 Leadership Panel
Continue readingThe UN ICESCR Committee has issued its recommendations and several reflect points made by the ALLIANCE and our members.
Continue readingCarers Scotland launches their State of Caring in Scotland 2024 research report.
Continue readingThe ALLIANCE responds to the Equality, Human Rights, and Civil Justice Committee's inquiry into the the Public Sector Equality Duty.
Continue readingOur response calls for a human rights based approach to outcomes, and to consider how to strengthen the SHRC.
Continue readingA Scotland that Cares campaign calls on the Scottish Government to set a dedicated National Outcome on Care now.
Continue readingPublic Health Scotland have published a briefing on transport poverty and health inequalities.
Continue readingThe Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has published a report on the state of economic, social and cultural rights in Scotland.
Continue readingThe ALLIANCE welcomes the proposed strategy, though a Human Rights Bill is necessary for full effect.
Continue readingObesity Action Scotland wants to stop unhealthy food sponsorship at Scottish sports events including the 2026 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
Continue readingResidents of Leith’s famous Banana Flats (Cables Wynd House) have launched their human rights monitoring report.
Continue readingThe Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) report finds troubling failures in progress from institutionalisation to independent living.
Continue readingThe updated SPSO Principles demonstrate a positive shift towards putting people and their human rights at the centre of complaints handling.
Continue readingThe Mental Welfare Commission calls for urgent changes so people with learning disability and complex needs can leave hospital and flourish.
Continue readingMinister announces parts of the National Care Service Bill will be dropped due to a lack of compromise and support.
Continue readingAre you aged 55+, living in the UK, and interested in supporting new research?
Continue readingWe have submitted a parallel report to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for its examination of rights in the UK.
Continue readingThe ALLIANCE welcome the aims of widening access to palliative care, but actions must be underpinned by resources and accountability.
Continue readingAutistic Knowledge Development and National Autistic Society Scotland celebrate the success of the Embrace Autism programme.
Continue reading