Chamber and committees

Through the Equality Data Improvement Programme, officials recently undertook an audit of datasets used by the Scottish Government to identify the extent to which data on each of the nine protected characteristics are collected and published. The next stage, which is underway, will use this information to produce an equality data improvement plan for each analytical area, identifying immediate improvements to datasets that can be completed by the end of 2022 and longer-term improvements that can be completed by the end of 2025. Stakeholders, including equality organisations, will be consulted to help identify priority datasets in Spring 2022.