Question

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a requirement for employers to disclose staff salary bands in the context of gender pay gap reporting.

The government has considered the merits of making disclosure of staff salary pay bands a requirement in this context, including the impact on women and those from ethnic minorities. However, since some employers may find it challenging to be fully transparent about pay, and the issues many organisations would face moving immediately to a system of full pay transparency, we do not believe that introducing a legal requirement to disclose this information is the right course of action.