Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government why publication of the research by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Equality and Human Rights Commission into pregnancy discrimination has been delayed, and when the final report can be expected.

The final reports into Pregnancy and Maternity-related Discrimination and Disadvantage in the Workplace were published on 22 March 2016, together with the Government response to recommendations made by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

We had intended to publish the final reports in December 2015, but this did not prove possible as the extensive research reports took longer than expected to finalise.