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<p>In 2017, the Government introduced world-leading legislation that made it statutory
for organisations with 250 or more employees to report annually on their gender pay
gap. Government departments are covered by the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties
and Public Authorities) Regulations 2017 which came into force on 31 March 2017. These
regulations underpin the Public Sector Equality Duty and require the relevant organisations
to publish their gender pay gap data by 30 March annually.</p><p>Each year, in addition
to reporting the figures required by the legislation each department publishes a stand
alone report outlining the reasons that contribute to their gender pay gap and the
action plans aimed at reducing it. At present there is no set date by which gender
pay gaps will be eliminated and it is acknowledged that it will take many years.</p><p>Individual
departmental gender pay gap reports are available on gov.uk.</p><p> </p>
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