Source · Select Committees · Business and Trade Committee
Recommendation 11
11
Deferred
Paragraph: 83
Regulators expected to detail AI capacity, expertise, and resource requirements to Committee.
Conclusion
We ask each of the regulators referred to by the Government in its recent White Paper to write to this Committee setting out what capacity, expertise and established policy it has in respect of the application of AI in the workplace and to set out what additional resources are required to deliver this new area of responsibility. We ask those regulators to write to this Committee no later than three months following publication of this report.
Government Response Summary
The government's response discusses the Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Act and ongoing work on maternity discrimination data, completely ignoring the recommendation for AI regulators to report their capacity and resource needs.
Paragraph Reference:
83
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government
Deferred
The Government agrees that it cannot be complacent when it comes to protecting women who are pregnant and new parents from discrimination. We are pleased that the Committee has recognised the Government’s support for the Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Bill. We are therefore pleased to confirm that this Bill received royal assent, and became an Act of Parliament, on 24 May. The result of this legislation, and subsequent regulations, is that there will be additional redundancy protection available from the point a woman tells her employer she is pregnant, through to 18 months after the child is born. The Government acknowledges the ongoing need for data on the extent of discrimination against pregnant women and new parents. We do not, however, believe that re-running the 2016 research project is the best way of obtaining this. That is why we continue to work with the Pregnancy and Maternity Discrimination Advisory Board7 to determine how best to assemble this evidence base. DBT is considering a programme of analysis based on a range of existing data sources (such as Employment Tribunal claims data and the monthly Labour Force Survey) which can be augmented by surveys, such as those currently undertaken by the TUC, Pregnant then Screwed, and others. 7 Pregnancy and Maternity Discrimination Advisory Board members: Equality and Human Rights Commission; Fawcett Society; Pregnant then Screwed; TUC; Working Families; British Chambers of Commerce; (CBI); Federation of Small Business; Institute of Directors; MAKE UK; Government Equalities Office 12 Post-pandemic economic growth: UK labour markets: Government Response