This online survey gives you a chance to contribute to the Disability Action Plan consultation by giving your views on the proposed actions to be taken forward by the Disability Unit in 2023 to 2024 to improve the lives of disabled people in the UK. This consultation is an opportunity for everyone - disabled people, disabled people’s organisations, and other interested parties - to have their say on the Disability Action Plan. We are consulting in an accessible way to ensure all...
Closes 6 October 2023
As part of Inclusive Britain , the Government’s action plan for racial equality, by the end of 2022 the Race Disparity Unit (RDU) has committed to "consult on new standards for government departments and other public bodies on how to record, understand and communicate ethnicity data." This will "ensure more responsible and accurate reporting on race and ethnicity". This is the consultation on these new standards, currently in draft. They are based around the three pillars from the ...
Closed 30 August 2022
The Ethnicity facts and figures website shows data about the experiences and outcomes of people from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. The website brings together official statistics from across government in a single, easily accessible location, analysed by ethnicity and often combined with other factors like geography and gender. It includes 185 pages of data (‘measure pages’) as well as methods and quality information. User research and feedback tells us that that we could do...
Closed 7 August 2022
This survey fulfils the National Disability Strategy commitment to consult on workforce reporting for large employers (250 employees and above) on disability. The consultation is being led by the Disability Unit, in the Cabinet Office, and responds to calls to improve data and transparency on disability in the workforce. Through this consultation, the government is exploring how best to increase transparency and reporting practices that support the cultural changes required to build a...
Closed 8 April 2022
The deadline for responding to this consultation has been extended to 4 February 2022. It is not necessary for those who have already responded to re-submit their responses. In this consultation we are seeking views from individuals and organisations on our proposals to ban conversion therapy. We are committed to building a society in which conversion therapy no longer takes place. Our intention is to bring forward a ban in the criminal law that is supported by additional...
Closed 4 February 2022
The Disability Unit at the Cabinet Office is developing a National Strategy for Disabled People. Publication is planned for Spring 2021. To help the government with understanding the barriers that disabled people face and what it may need to focus upon to improve the lives of disabled people, we need to hear about your views and know more about your experiences. This survey will ask about your life experiences either as a disabled person, a carer or parent or as someone who has an...
Closed 23 April 2021
See what we've consulted on.
Last year, the Cabinet Office Equality Hub put a series of proposals to reform the ‘Ethnicity facts and figures’ website out to public consultation. We want to improve Ethnicity facts and figures, helping users to understand the drivers and factors behind disparities, and minimise the risk of misinterpretation and incorrect conclusions being drawn. For policy-makers we will be providing better evidence for targeting interventions and resources at the real point of need. We proposed to do this by streamlining measure pages while providing deeper analysis of the most notable disparities.
Overall, the respondents agreed with the majority of our proposals. There were 3 areas where respondents disagreed with our proposals as presented: