Agenda item

Report of the Chief Strategy Officer.

The Sub-Committee received a report of the Chief Strategy Officer, concerning the approval to publish the City of London Corporation’s Equality Information Report 2024, to meet its responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties and Public Authorities) Regulations 2017.

The Sub-Committee raised queries relating to the intersectionality of data, which aligned with the People Strategy’s work on attraction and recruitment, and collecting and analysing the intersectionality of data. Analysis of data had been expanded since the previous year, noting the challenge that if the data became too granular, this would have to be redacted from the Equality Information Report. With the improved data collection over the last year, more analysis of intersectionality of data could be reported in the future.

A Member queried whether there was confidence that the data was an accurate representation of the City Corporation’s workforce. The Sub-Committee heard that, since the publication of the previous years’ Equality Information Report, questions had been amended for clarity and the range of questions expanded, and therefore the data may change in the next years’ report. There was assurance that the data reflected the workforce, however this linked with disclosure rates improving following ongoing communications to staff during 2024. This would enhance data quality, and achieve a higher confidence in the data.

RESOLVED – That Members of the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Sub-Committee:

·       Endorse the Equality Information Report 2024 provided at Appendix 1 for publication on the City Corporation’s external website by 30 March 2025, thereby fulfilling our legislative responsibilities.

·       Note the continued commitment to improving the quality of Equity, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EEDI) data employees and service users, and the progress made to date on encouraging employees to share their diversity data.