Question

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, which Department will oversee the work of the inclusion at work panel.

Membership of the Inclusion at Work Panel is currently being determined by the Minister for Women and Equalities and the Chair of the Panel, Pamela Dow. The broad criteria was set out in Action 69 of Inclusive Britain, specifically that the Panel should be ‘made up of academics and practitioners in business’. Panel members will be appointed on a voluntary basis - these will be unpaid roles. The Equality Hub, based in the Cabinet Office, will provide the Secretariat to the Panel.

The Panel’s remit will be to develop and disseminate resources that can help employers achieve fairness and inclusion in the workplace more effectively. They will also develop a new, voluntary, Inclusion Confident Scheme for employers who want to demonstrate their commitment to implementing the most efficacious diversity and inclusion practices.

The Panel will also consider how best to take forward the work on pay transparency. This includes whether a pilot is the best way to progress this work and if so, what the timetable for this work would be.