Equality and Human Rights Commission

The Commission is firmly committed to the Better Regulation Task Force's principles of good regulation, which maintain that regulation should be proportionate, accountable, consistent, transparent and targeted. The priority for our work on gender pay transparency is to strike the right balance between establishing a framework for consistent reporting of meaningful information and ensuring that the measures we come up with are proportionate, build on existing good practice, and are flexible enough to reflect progress across a number of criteria.

To ensure that the Commission's work in developing ways of measuring and reporting on the gender pay gap is fully informed by current good equal pay practice, the Commission set up high level stakeholder and technical advisory groups to advise on the development process. The Commission also drew on the expertise of pay specialists. The consultation was an important part of a structured process bringing together all relevant parties including major employers and asking them about their approach to the issues and possible solutions.