Question

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring companies to record age-related data in their recruitment practices as means of ensuring compliance with the 2010 Equalities Act.

Recruitment practices are a matter for individual employers, provided that they comply with the requirements of the Equality Act 2010, including the age discrimination provisions. We would encourage larger employers to monitor their recruitment patterns in the context of relevant protected characteristics, as a useful indicator of the strength of their compliance with the 2010 Act. There are currently no plans to make such data collection a requirement.