Figures published in a Peterborough City Council report revealed that non-white employees earned less on average than white employees at the authority.

The council is legally obliged to publish its gender pay gap data annually. Its ethnicity pay gap data is voluntarily published alongside it.

A report highlighting the key pay gap statistics from last year will be presented to the council's employment committee on Thursday, November 27.

One of the findings was that non-white employees earned on average £1.82 less per hour than white employees - an 8.4 per cent mean gap.

Explaining the pay gap, Christine Marshall, director of corporate services at Peterborough City Council, said: "While there is currently no legal requirement for large organisations to publish their ethnicity pay gap

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