Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report published on 23 January by the Institute of Directors and Disability@Work, Progress through transparency: the case for mandatory disability employment and pay gap reporting.

On 18 March 2025, the Government launched a consultation on mandatory pay gap reporting for both disability and ethnicity. Responses to the consultation will help to shape proposals which will be included in the upcoming Equality (Race and Disability) Bill, which was announced in the King’s Speech in July 2024. We welcome the report published by the Institute of Directors and Disability@Work and will consider it alongside the consultation responses as we develop this piece of legislation. The previous Government consulted on disability workforce reporting in 2021/22, and we are pleased to have been able to publish a summary of responses to that consultation alongside the Equality (Race and Disability) Bill consultation.