In 2012 the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) issued a report on the publication of equality information. According to the report, only about every second of 1,159 public authorities has published equality information according to plan. 78% of the investigated institutions partially fulfilled the regulations. The probationary services and police did very well with 71% and 69% respectively regarding the legitimate publication of the data. National organisations and NHS service officers were the worst performers, with 25% and 36%, respectively. In total, 6% of the assessed authorities did not publish any equality information. The Commission announced that it would turn to these authorities and ask them to remedy these abuses and fulfil their duties. If this does not happen, the Commission will use its legal capacity to enforce its obligations.

Another important finding of the report was that most authorities tend to publish data about their employees rather than data about their service users. On the one hand, this is understandable, since the data on their employees is already available. On the other hand, this should be improved as part of the adherence to the specific duties. Most information about employees was published in the categories of ethnicity, gender, age and disability (86%). Only just over half (56%) of all investigated authorities have also published information that takes into account religion or belief and sexual orientation (Report Publishing Equality Information: Commitment and Transparency, The Equality and Human Rights Commission, page 3-9, December 2012).