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1 April 2021
FAO: Ermine Amies
Sent via email to: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Ermine Amies
Freedom of Information Request [Tate Ref: 892]
Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act received and
acknowledged by us on 5 February 2021. I have repeated your enquiry and provided
answers below.
1. Any application you made in 2019 or 2020 to be a “Stonewal Diversity Champion” or to be
included on Stonewall’s “Workplace Equality Index,” including any attachments or
appendices to those applications. Please redact personal details if necessary.
Tate did not submit an application to the Stonewal Equality Index for 2020 (documents are
submitted in the preceding year, in this case 2019), or for 2021.
Membership of the Stonewal Diversity Champions programme does not require
an application or submission.
2. Any feedback you received in 2019 or 2020 from Stonewal in relation to either application
or programme.
Please see the response above.
3. Any other communication you have received from Stonewall in 2019 or 2020 unless
privileged or otherwise exempt from disclosure (but if you claim privilege or exemption in
relation to any material, please say in broad terms what the material is and the basis on
which you claim to be entitled to withhold it).
As noted above, Tate did not submit an application to Stonewal ’s Workplace Equality Index
in either 2019 or 2020. We confirm we that we do hold a small amount of correspondence
that we received over the period 2019-20. This includes non-specific newsletters and
webinar invites, and correspondence relating to the commercial aspects of the previous
years. For the purposes of this request, we have taken the generic communication to be out
of scope. Communications on commercial matters are withheld under the exemptions
provided for by Section 43 (2) of the Freedom of Information Act. The relevant text is detailed
in the appendix below (Appendix A). Tate’s Freedom of Information Group recognises the
public interest in your request, but consider that the rights of both communicating parties to
conduct commercial discussions in private should be maintained.
4. Ful details of any equality impact assessment you carried out connected with any of these
applications (including any equality impact assessment carried out prior to an earlier
application of the same kind, if no further assessment was done).
Tate’s membership of the Diversity Champions programme is a paid-for service and did not
require a EQIA.
5. Details of the total amount of money you paid to Stonewall (i) in 2019; (i ) in 2020, whether
or not as payment for goods or services.
January
Stonewal Equality
Diversity Champions Membership 13/3/19-
£2,500.00
2019
Ltd
12/3/20
June 2020
Stonewal Equality
Diversity Champions Membership -
£2,500.00
Ltd
13/3/20 - 12/3/21
6. Whether you intend to continue your membership of any Stonewall scheme in the future,
and if so which.
We intend to renew Tate’s membership of the Stonewal Diversity Champions programme for
2021-22.
If you are not satisfied with this response to your request for information, you may seek an
internal review of this response by replying in writing to this letter. Tate will respond to your
request for a review within 20 working days of the receipt of your request.
If you remain dissatisfied with Tate’s response fol owing an internal review, you may seek an
independent adjudication on the matter from the Information Commissioner, who can be
contacted at:
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF
Or you may telephone on:
Tel: 01625 545 745
Yours sincerely,
Jessica Clifford
On behalf of the Tate Freedom of Information Group
Appendix A
Section 43
Commercial interests.
— (1) Information is exempt information if it constitutes a trade secret.
(2) Information is exempt information if its disclosure under this Act would, or would be likely
to, prejudice the commercial interests of any person (including the public authority holding it).
(3) The duty to confirm or deny does not arise if, or to the extent that, compliance with
section 1(1)(a) would, or would be likely to, prejudice the interests mentioned in subsection
(2).