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<p>The specific information requested is not collected or held centrally.</p><p>The
Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), an independent statutory body, is responsible
for the enforcement, monitoring and assessment of how public bodies comply with the
public sector Equality Duty (PSED) and specific duties. The EHRC has published two
reports to date which look at the performance of public bodies in England under the
PSED and specific duties:</p><p>• ‘Publishing equality information: Commitment, engagement
and transparency' was published in December 2012. This report looked at how public
authorities had performed with regard to the first specific duty (publication of equality
information). Data for this assessment was collected between February and April 2012
and covered 1,159 public authorities in England. The report indicated that about half
of the public authorities reviewed were publishing equality information on their workforce
and service users by April 2012. Many more (78%) were publishing information on either
their staff or their service users.</p><p>• ‘Assessment of the publication of equality
objectives by English public authorities' was published in Autumn 2013. This report
sets out the findings of an assessment of how public authorities in England are publishing
equality objectives. Data for the assessment was collected between September and December
2012 and covered 2,010 public authorities.</p><p>These reports do not estimate the
associated costs of producing and publishing equalities information.</p>
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