Information about your dealings with Stonewall [Extraneous material removed]

The request was refused by Museum of London.

Dear Museum of London,

This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). Please provide any information that you hold answering to any of the following descriptions:

1. Any application you made in 2019 or 2020 to be a “Stonewall 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.

2. Any feedback you received in 2019 or 2020 from Stonewall in relation to either application or programme.

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).

4. Full 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).

5. Details of the total amount of money you paid to Stonewall (i) in 2019; (ii) in 2020, whether or not as payment for goods or services.

6. Whether you intend to continue your membership of any Stonewall scheme in the future, and if so which.

Yours faithfully,

Ermine Amies

Ruth Thomson, Museum of London

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Dear Ms Amies,

Please find our response to your Freedom of Information Request attached, with PDFs of the information to follow in a separate response, due to their size.

We hope the information provided is of interest to you and please do not hesitate to get in touch directly should you have any further queries.

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal review. Internal review requests should be submitted within two months of the date of receipt of this response to your original email and should be addressed to [email address].

If you are dissatisfied with the outcome or the conduct of the Museum’s internal review, you may seek an independent review from the Information Commissioner. Report your concern via the ICO website at https://ico.org.uk/concerns or call their helpline 0303 123 1113.

Yours sincerely,

Ruth Thomson

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Ruth Thomson, Museum of London

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Dear Ms Amies,

Please find PDFs of the information you requested in line with our response, attached.

Best wishes,

Ruth

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Partially but not fully answered. Museum of London is also considering a S43 exemption on feedback on they received in 2019 or 2020 from Stonewall in relation to either application or programme.

Ruth Thomson, Museum of London

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Dear Ms Amies,

Further to our response to your Freedom of Information request on 5th March, we have concluded our Public Interest Test pursuant to s.43 (2) of the Freedom of Information Act, in regards to the feedback provided from Stonewall as part of our Workplace Equality Index submissions.

Please find our response attached.

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal review. Internal review requests should be submitted within two months of the date of receipt of this response to your original email and should be addressed to [email address].

If you are dissatisfied with the outcome or the conduct of the Museum’s internal review, you may seek an independent review from the Information Commissioner. Report your concern via the ICO website at https://ico.org.uk/concerns or call their helpline 0303 123 1113.

Yours sincerely,

Ruth Thomson

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Dear Ruth Thomson,

A belated thank you,

I've spoken to the ICO who said you might be willing to consider undertaking an internal review as its less than 6 months since you responded to me. If you agree, I will drop you a note with the reason for the review.

Please advise.

Yours sincerely,

Ermine Amies

Richard Sweet, Museum of London

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Dear Ms Amies,

 

Many thanks for your email, dated 17^th June, asking for an internal
review into the handling of your Freedom of Information request regarding
Stonewall, originally submitted 5^th February.

 

The Museum offers requestors the right to ask for an internal review,
provided they are within two months of the date of response to the
enquiry. Our response to your enquiry was 1^st April, and as you requested
an internal review on 17^th June, this is outside our internal review
timeframe. Guidance from the ICO and the Freedom of Information Code of
Practice states that public authorities are not obliged to accept internal
reviews after this date.

 

In line with this guidance, and our own procedure, we therefore regret to
inform you that we are unable to conduct an internal review at this time.

You may however seek an independent review from the Information
Commissioner. Please visit the ICO website at
[1]https://ico.org.uk/concerns or call their helpline 0303 123 1113.

 

Richard Sweet

Director of Operations

 

07798 681 439

 

 

Richard Sweet (He/Him/His)
Director of Enterprise
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museumoflondon.org.uk

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