Issue - meetings

Report by the Director of HR and Cultural Change

The Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties and Public Authorities) Regulations 2017 stipulate that all businesses, public sector and third sector organisations with over 250 employees must publicly report on average pay differences between their male and female employees. 

Unlike the gender pay gap, the Council is not legally required to publish its ethnicity pay gap. However, positive steps have been taken to measure and be transparent about the Council’s performance in this area.  

Council is RECOMMENDED to

a)              Note Oxfordshire County Council’s statutory Gender Pay Gap report of 2025 and approve it for onward submission to the Gender Pay Gap Service by 31 March 2026. 

b)              Note the Council’s voluntary Ethnicity Pay Gap report of 2025.

c)              Agree to the publishing of both reports on the Council’s website by 31 March 2026.

Recommendations approved with 61 votes in favour, one abstention and no votes against.

Council had before it two reports, the Gender Pay Gap Report which the Council is legally required to publish, and the Ethnicity Pay Gap Report which the council also publishes to be transparent about the Council’s performance in this area.  

The recommendations were moved by Councillor Neil Fawcett and seconded by Councillor Liz Leffman.  Following discussion, the recommendations were approved with 61 votes in favour, one abstention and no votes against.

RESOLVED:

a) That Oxfordshire County Council’s statutory Gender Pay Gap report of 2025 be noted and approval be given to its onward submission to the Gender Pay Gap Service by 31 March 2026.

b) That the Council’s voluntary Ethnicity Pay Gap report of 2025, be noted.

c) That approval be given to the publishing of both reports on the Council’s website by 31 March 2026.