This diversity information is collected by government departments managing appointments to the board of public bodies, on behalf of the Cabinet Office and The Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments (OCPA). This data will not be connected to your name when it is shared, it supplied anonymously. It is collected for the purposes of measures or decisions with respect to your application for a government public appointment.
OCPA collects diversity information in order to produce management information about the public appointments process, and the diversity of the field of applicants. It will be published on OCPA’s website, in summary form, in order to enable government to meet its public sector equality duty under section 149 of the Equality Act 2010.
This data is collected and held on the basis that you consented to provide this information to departments alongside your application and you have not given notice that you do not wish for your data to be processed for this purpose.
This data may be held for up to 5 years by OCPA, Cabinet Office and the Government Department, who are the co-controllers of the data. This data shared with Cabinet Office IT suppliers in order to securely collect and store the data identified as data processors.