Lord McDowall

Thank you for your request for information dated 09 November 2008 for a copy of the policy which covers equality and diversity within the UK Border Agency which falls to be answered under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Your request has been passed to the HR Strategy and Performance Team to answer. In response to your request, we adhere to the Home Office Three Year Diversity Strategy and the UKBA Three Strand Equality Scheme (Race, Disability and Gender) and the relevant documents are attached with this email.

If you are dissatisfied with this response you may request an independent internal review of our handling of your request.  Internal review requests should be submitted within two months of the UK Border Agency sending a substantive reply to your original request and should be addressed  to:

Information Access Policy Team

Freedom of Information Team
UK Border Agency
11th Floor - Short Corridor
Lunar House,

40 Wellesley Road
Croydon
CR9 2BY

During the independent review the department's handling of your information request will be reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you with this response. Should you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you will have a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.

Yours sincerely

S.Gopinathan

HR Strategy and Performance Team