The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 SI 2006/1031 provide a set form of questionnaire which an aggrieved person can use to ask questions of someone who he believes has discriminated against him (see Age Regs 2006 sch 3). This is similar to provision made in the sex, race and disability anti-discrimination rules (see for example notes at Sex discrimination/questionnaire ).

There is no statutory obligation on an employer to answer a questionnaire but an employment tribunal will be entitled to draw whatever inferences it considers appropriate from a failure to answer within the time allowed (or from evasive or equivocal replies), including an inference that the person questioned has committed an unlawful act (Age Regs 2006 reg 41)

A useful guidance booklet, including an appropriate questionnaire form for employees and a reply form for employers, was issued by the DTI in early August 2006 (see Age Discrimination questionnaire - DTI booklet and guidance, August 2006).

See also Age discrimination/2006 regulations/Forms and Draft Letters