Duty to gather and use employee information
6.—(1) A listed authority must take steps to gather information on—
(a)the composition of the authority’s employees (if any); and
(b)the recruitment, development and retention of persons as employees of the authority,
with respect to, in each year, the number and relevant protected characteristics of such persons.
(2) The authority must use this information to better perform the equality duty.
(3) A report published by the listed authority in accordance with regulation 3 must include—
(a)an annual breakdown of information gathered by it in accordance with paragraph (1) which has not been published previously in such a report; and
(b)details of the progress that the authority has made in gathering and using that information to enable it to better perform the equality duty.