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Recommendation 18
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Acknowledged
The PHSO should report back to the Committee in its response to this Report on...
Recommendation
The PHSO should report back to the Committee in its response to this Report on the viability of breaking down a wider variety of staff diversity data by grade in its Annual Report and Accounts, as it already does for the gender of senior managers. (Paragraph 58) Value for money
Government Response Summary
The government acknowledges the importance of understanding the protected characteristics of their workforce and are planning a campaign to raise the benefits of staff declaring this information with the aim of having as complete data as possible and will report this, for the grades where they have sufficient numbers of staff to maintain anonymity, once they have more complete data.
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
Employees are required, as part of payroll associated HMRC requirements, to confirm their gender and therefore we have this information for all employees. We do not currently have the diversity data required to consistently provide a breakdown by grade across other protected characteristics. Staff are encouraged to declare this data; however, it is voluntary. Due to lower numbers of declarations in some areas, we have significant data gaps. Any data we did publish would therefore be incomplete. We also have some grades where we employ small numbers which limit the reporting options from a data security and anonymity perspective. We acknowledge the importance of understanding the protected characteristics of our workforce and are planning a campaign to raise the benefits of staff declaring this information with the aim of having as complete data as possible. We are committed to reporting this, for the grades where we have sufficient numbers of staff to maintain anonymity, once we have more complete data.