Scottish National Investment Bank Act 2020

20 Report on gender equality strategy

(1) At least every 2 years, the Bank must prepare and lay before the Scottish Parliament a report evaluating, in relation to the period since the last report was prepared—

(a) the extent to which the Bank has fulfilled the commitments in its gender equality strategy,

(b) the extent to which the fulfilment of each commitment (insofar as it has been fulfilled) has made the contribution towards advancing gender equality in Scotland that the Bank intended it should, and

(c) whether the things that the Bank has done to fulfil the commitments have affected differently women who share a relevant protected characteristic and women who do not share it.

(2) In subsection (1)(c), “a relevant protected characteristic” is a characteristic mentioned in section 149(7) of the Equality Act 2010.

(3) A report under this section may be in any form that the Bank considers appropriate and (in particular) may be part of another document.

(4) The first report under this section—

(a) is to be laid before the Parliament within 2 years of the day on which the Bank’s gender equality strategy is first made publicly available, and

(b) is to relate to the period beginning on that day.