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<p>This Government is committed to the empowerment of women in the workplace. Over
the last decade our work has seen the gender pay gap fall considerably with the reporting
regulations helping to motivate employers to improve equality in the workplace and
strong growth in the number of women in full-time work.</p><p>To drive forward this
progress we have recently announced a groundbreaking pay transparency pilot, a new
STEM returners programme and a Taskforce on Women-Led High-Growth Enterprises.</p><p>We
are required to carry out a review of the regulations after they’ve been in force
for five years; as is the case for many other business regulations. This is being
prepared by the Equality Hub. It is important that we take time to properly consider
the evidence we have from the last five years, especially factoring in the effects
of the pandemic, so that the review accurately reflects the implementation and impact
of reporting. It will be published in due course.</p>
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