We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity in employment and to selecting and developing staff on merit, irrespective of race, ethnic origin, colour, nationality, disability, sex, age, relationship status, religion/belief or sexual orientation. In order to monitor the fairness of our recruitment and HR processes and the overall workforce composition as well as to assist us in meeting our statutory obligations under the Equality Act, we ask that you provide the following information. Please note that this information is optional and will only be used by the HR department for internal monitoring purposes and will not form part of the recruitment process or be made available to anyone involved during the selection stages. The information provided will form a confidential statistical record/database which will be used for analysis only.