Enhanced Accountability? Assessing Amendments to Gender Pay Gap Reporting in the Employment Rights Act 2025 – King’s Law Journal
‘The gender pay gap (GPG) has long occupied the UK political agenda. Beginning with David Cameron, successive Conservative prime ministers expressed an ambition to close the GPG entirely ‘within a generation’. Although the GPG of all UK workers has been steadily declining over time (falling from 27.5 per cent in 1997 to 12.8 per cent in 2025),at the current rate it is projected to take another 20 years to close. This slow progress has prompted successive governments to introduce voluntary initiatives and regulatory measures aimed at accelerating the rate of decline. The most significant of these was the introduction of the Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017 (‘the GPG Regulations’), which made annual GPG reporting mandatory for employers with 250 or more employees.’
King's Law Journal, 21st July 2026
Source: doi.org

