Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if their Department will publish an Ethnicity Pay Gap Report for financial year 2023-24 in line with the Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting guidance for employers published on 17 April 2023.

Improving representation and inclusion of people from an ethnic minority background is a priority for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). With that in mind, we are working with Civil Service HR and other government departments to review the details of the Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting guidance that was published on 17 April 2023, and how, where possible, we can adopt Ethnicity Pay Reporting (EPR). In line with Gender Pay Gap Reporting, the Civil Service is looking to develop a consistent methodology to be used across departments to produce reliable, informative data. The outcome of this work will inform whether DCMS is able to publish a report for 2023/2024.