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Equal Pay: Disability

Commons · Question 124210 · Tabled 26 Mar 2026 · Women and Equalities · Official record

Answered 14 Apr 2026

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Asked by Preet Kaur Gill

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of using the Government Statistical Service categories in the Government's response to the consultation on ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting on the

Answer

Answered by Seema Malhotra, 14 Apr 2026

Public bodies usually collect ethnicity data in line with the ethnicity harmonised standard, which is developed by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The current harmonised standard for ethnicity data does not include specific “Sikh” and “Jewish” c...