Question

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether her Department will have access to HM Revenue and Customs data in order to help identify non-compliant businesses once gender pay gap reporting requirements are in place in April 2018.

The Government Equalities Office does not currently intend to use HMRC data to help identify non-compliant employers. The regulations introducing mandatory gender pay gap reporting will require employers to publish the information on their own website and a Government website. This will allow us to monitor closely the levels of compliance, and we will keep our approach under review during the early years of implementation.