The Office for Tackling Injustices (OfTI) will use this data on issues such as race, gender, poverty and disability to identify key barriers affecting specific groups as well as gathering new evidence which could previously have been unreliable or not available.
The OfTI will follow a similar approach taken by the Race Disparity Audit which uses data to analyse how a person's ethnicity affects their experiences of public services, the government said.
It will examine inequalities in areas such as socio-ecomomic background, ethnicity, gender, disability and sexual orientation to find out if certain groups of people are being unfairly discriminated against.
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