Documents relating to the Equality Impact Assessment for the Transgender Action Plan
Dear Welsh Government,
I am making a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to be supplied with the following information:
1. Minutes of all meetings between 19/11/2014 and 14/03/2016 at which the Equality Impact Assessment for the ‘Welsh Government Action Plan to advance equality for transgender people’ was discussed or mentioned.
2. All correspondence dated between 19/11/2014 and 14/03/2016 sent by or received by the Welsh Government in which the Equality Impact Assessment for the ‘Welsh Government Action Plan to advance equality for transgender people’ was discussed or mentioned. This should include all relevant internal communications within Welsh Government, as well as all relevant correspondence (email and paper) between Welsh Government and external organisations or individuals.
Yours faithfully,
E. Williams
Please see attached a reply to your Freedom of Information request which I
received on 6 August 2019.
Regards
Andrea Adams
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Dear E.Williams
Please see final response to FOI13341.
Equality Branch
Welsh Government
Sganiwyd y neges hon am bob feirws hysbys wrth iddi adael Llywodraeth
Cymru. Mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn cymryd o ddifrif yr angen i ddiogelu eich
data. Os cysylltwch â Llywodraeth Cymru, mae ein [1]hysbysiad preifatrwydd
yn esbonio sut rydym yn defnyddio eich gwybodaeth a sut rydym yn diogelu
eich preifatrwydd. Rydym yn croesawu gohebiaeth yn Gymraeg. Byddwn yn
anfon ateb yn Gymraeg i ohebiaeth a dderbynnir yn Gymraeg ac ni fydd
gohebu yn Gymraeg yn arwain at oedi. On leaving the Welsh Government this
email was scanned for all known viruses. The Welsh Government takes the
protection of your data seriously. If you contact the Welsh Government
then our [2]Privacy Notice explains how we use your information and the
ways in which we protect your privacy. We welcome receiving correspondence
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Dear Welsh Government,
Thank you for your response. The two pdf documents you have embedded in your .docx document are not easily accessible. Please will you send them again as separate pdf attachments which can be more easily downloaded.
Yours faithfully,
E. Williams
Dear Welsh Government,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Welsh Government's handling of my FOI request 'Documents relating to the Equality Impact Assessment for the Transgender Action Plan'.
I requested all communications and minutes of meetings which mentioned or discussed the Equality Impact Assessment for the Transgender Action Plan between 19/11/2014 (the date on which the Transgender Action Plan was first debated in the Welsh Assembly) and 14/3/2016 (the date on which the Transgender Action Plan was officially launched by the Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty).
The response to my request consisted of two documents, FOI 13341 Scanned Papers.pdf, which consists of a single communication between Welsh Government staff and the Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty, dated 8th December 2015 and FOI.pdf, which is the Transgender Action Plan itself, published in March 2016.
The Equality Impact Assessment Practice Hub (www.eiapractice.wales.nhs.uk), linked to in the Transgender Action Plan and recommended as good practice for carrying out an EIA, states in Step 1: “There should be more than one author” and “Create a timeline in which to conduct the EIA and record progress throughout the assessment.” In Step 5: “It is a crucial responsibility to consult widely on the draft report” and “It is important to ensure that all protected characteristic groups are represented in the consultation.”
If an Equality Impact Assessment was carried out for the Transgender Action Plan following these guidelines, as claimed by Welsh Government, there must have been some further communication both within Welsh Government between the two or more authors of the Equality Impact Assessment (if it was produced internally), or between Welsh Government and the body responsible for carrying out the EIA (if produced externally). There must also have been communications between Welsh Government and other bodies or individuals who were consulted. Have all these communications been lost, like the Equality Impact Assessment itself, or did no other communications take place other than those already supplied for this FOI request?
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/d...
Yours faithfully,
E. Williams
Please find acknowledgement of your request attached.
Sganiwyd y neges hon am bob feirws hysbys wrth iddi adael Llywodraeth
Cymru. Mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn cymryd o ddifrif yr angen i ddiogelu eich
data. Os cysylltwch â Llywodraeth Cymru, mae ein [1]hysbysiad preifatrwydd
yn esbonio sut rydym yn defnyddio eich gwybodaeth a sut rydym yn diogelu
eich preifatrwydd. Rydym yn croesawu gohebiaeth yn Gymraeg. Byddwn yn
anfon ateb yn Gymraeg i ohebiaeth a dderbynnir yn Gymraeg ac ni fydd
gohebu yn Gymraeg yn arwain at oedi. On leaving the Welsh Government this
email was scanned for all known viruses. The Welsh Government takes the
protection of your data seriously. If you contact the Welsh Government
then our [2]Privacy Notice explains how we use your information and the
ways in which we protect your privacy. We welcome receiving correspondence
in Welsh. Any correspondence received in Welsh will be answered in Welsh
and corresponding in Welsh will not lead to a delay in responding.
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Dear E Williams
Please find attached the response to your FOI request 13341 - Internal
Review of the Welsh Government’s handling of your
FOI request ‘Documents relating to the Equality Impact Assessment for the
Transgender Action Plan’.
Kind regards
Sian
Siân Lewis
Yr Is-Adran Gymunedau / Communities Division
Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government
Ebost / Email : sian.lewis2@gov.wales
Ffôn / Phone : 0300 025 3288
Sganiwyd y neges hon am bob feirws hysbys wrth iddi adael Llywodraeth
Cymru. Mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn cymryd o ddifrif yr angen i ddiogelu eich
data. Os cysylltwch â Llywodraeth Cymru, mae ein [1]hysbysiad preifatrwydd
yn esbonio sut rydym yn defnyddio eich gwybodaeth a sut rydym yn diogelu
eich preifatrwydd. Rydym yn croesawu gohebiaeth yn Gymraeg. Byddwn yn
anfon ateb yn Gymraeg i ohebiaeth a dderbynnir yn Gymraeg ac ni fydd
gohebu yn Gymraeg yn arwain at oedi. On leaving the Welsh Government this
email was scanned for all known viruses. The Welsh Government takes the
protection of your data seriously. If you contact the Welsh Government
then our [2]Privacy Notice explains how we use your information and the
ways in which we protect your privacy. We welcome receiving correspondence
in Welsh. Any correspondence received in Welsh will be answered in Welsh
and corresponding in Welsh will not lead to a delay in responding.
References
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1. file:///tmp/”https:/gov.wales/about/welsh-government-privacy-notice/?lang=cy”
2. https://gov.wales/about/welsh-government...
Dear Welsh Government,
Thank you for your reply. In the Word document, there is an embedded pdf document containing the consultation responses. Please would you send this again as a separate attachment as it is not easily accessible as an embedded document.
Yours faithfully,
E. Williams
Dear E. Williams
Further to your email below, please find attached the consultation summary document.
Kind regards
Sian
Siân Lewis
Yr Is-Adran Gymunedau / Communities Division
Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government
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