Oral QuestionDepartment for Work and Pensions

“What steps his Department is taking to support more people into work.”

Tabled: 25 October 2022Answered: 31 October 2022

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Answer from Hansard

The Minister for Equalities (Seema Malhotra)

The Government are committed to breaking down the barriers of opportunity for all, and to race equality throughout Government, so that our missions deliver for everyone. We are working on our plans to legislate to introduce mandatory ethnicity pay group reporting for large employers, and to enshrine in law the right to equal pay for ethnic minority people. Those measures were announced as part of the draft Equality (Race and Disability) Bill, on which we will consult early next year.