16.—(1) An authority must, in respect of each reporting period, publish a report not later than the relevant date in the year following the year in which that reporting period ends.
(2) The report must set out—
(a)the steps that the authority has taken to identify and collect relevant information;
(b)in respect of relevant information that it holds, how the authority has used that information for the purpose of complying with the general duty and the duties in these Regulations;
(c)the authority’s reasons for not collecting any relevant information that it has identified but does not hold;
(d)the progress that the authority has made in order to fulfil each of its equality objectives;
(e)a statement by the authority of the effectiveness of—
(i)its arrangements for identifying and collecting relevant information; and
(ii)the steps it has taken in order to fulfil each of its equality objectives; and
(f)the information that the authority is required to publish by regulation 9(4) unless the authority has already published that information.
(3) The authority may, if it considers it appropriate to do so, include in a report any other matter that is relevant to compliance by the authority with the general duty and the duties in these Regulations.
(4) The authority may comply with the duty to publish a report under paragraph (1) by setting out its report (including any matter referred to in paragraph (3)) as part of another published document or within a number of other published documents.