FOI - Expenditure on equality, diversity, and inclusivity.
Dear Scottish Qualifications Authority,
I wish to make an FOI request, as set out under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please can your organisation provide the following information:
a) The number of roles in your association (expressed in numbers of FTE), that are mainly or exclusively focussed on issues of equality, diversity, or inclusivity. For example, this could include (amongst other guises) “EDI officers” or “diversity and inclusion project managers” but would not include general HR managers.
b) Either a) the pay band of each of these roles, or b) the combined total salaries for these roles. Whichever measure is more in accordance with your data preferences.
c) In the past 12 months the number of staff days across your organisation which have been committed to attending equality training programmes, whether internally run or with external consultants. (staff days = duration of the training programme multiplied by the number of staff in attendance for the course). If unable to provide please mark as N/A in your return.
Please can this information be returned to me within 20 working days.
If your organisation does not hold information in relation to any of the letters please file as N/A and provide the rest of the information that you do hold.
Yours faithfully,
Art Lightfoot
(80 Arrol House, London, SE1 6QL)
Dear Mr Lightfoot
Thank you for your request for information received on 17 November 2022
under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. We are currently
dealing with your request and will respond as soon as practicable, but in
any event, as required by the Act, within 20 statutory working days. In
this instance the 20th working day falls on 16 December 2022
In the meantime if I can be of any further assistance, please do not
hesitate to contact me.
Regards
Many thanks
Alan Redhead
Freedom of Information Manager
T: 0345 213 5323 e: [1][SQA request email]
Scottish Qualifications Authority
The Optima Building,
58 Robertson Street
Glasgow G2 8DG
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Dear Mr Lightfoot,
Thank you for your request for information received on 13 September 2022.
You asked SQA for the following information:
I wish to make an FOI request, as set out under the Freedom of Information
Act 2000.
Please can your organisation provide in Excel CSV format, the following
information:
a) The number of roles in your association (expressed in numbers
of FTE), that are mainly or exclusively focussed on issues of equality,
diversity, or inclusivity. For example, this could include (amongst other
guises) “EDI officers” or “diversity and inclusion project managers” but
would not include general HR managers.
b) Either a) the pay band of each of these roles, or b) the
combined total salaries for these roles. Whichever measure is more in
accordance with your data preferences.
c) In the past 12 months the number of staff days across your
organisation which have been committed to attending equality training
programmes, whether internally run or with external consultants. (staff
days = duration of the training programme multiplied by the number of
staff in attendance for the course).
SQA's response
Under section 25(1) of the Act, if information is reasonably accessible we
are not obliged to provide it. The information requested was contained
within a recent request received by SQA. Our response to this can be found
in our Disclosure Log on our website at the following address:
[1]Equality, diversity and Inclusivity information - SQA
If you are not satisfied with the way in which we have dealt with your
request for information made under the Freedom of Information (Scotland)
Act 2002, you have the right to request a review of our actions and
decisions in relation to that request. A request for a review must be
made within 40 working days of the original decision, should include the
name and address of the applicant for correspondence, the request for
information to which the review refers and the matter giving rise to the
dissatisfaction. Review requests should be sent to:
Freedom of Information Officer
Scottish Qualifications Authority
The Optima Building
58 Robertson Street
GLASGOW
G2 8DQ
Email – [2][SQA request email]
The request will be acknowledged and a review will be carried out by a
senior official within SQA who has not been involved in the original
response. Their decision will be sent to you within 20 working days of
receipt of the request. If you are still dissatisfied, you have a right
to apply to the Scottish Information Commissioner for a decision. The
Scottish Information Commissioner has launched a new online appeal
service. You can now access this online service by using the following
weblink - [3]www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal. Should you wish to
appeal against this decision, you have the right to appeal to the Court of
Session on a point of law only.
Further details on this process are available on the Commissioner’s
website [4]www.itspublicknowledge.info, other contact details are as
follows:
The Scottish Information Commissioner
Kinburn Castle
Doubledykes Road
St Andrews
KY16 9DS
Tel: 01334 464610
E-mail: [5][email address]
Many thanks
Alan Redhead
Freedom of Information Manager
T: 0345 213 5323 e: [6][SQA request email]
Scottish Qualifications Authority
The Optima Building,
58 Robertson Street
Glasgow G2 8DG
References
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4. http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/
5. mailto:[email%20address]
6. mailto:[sqa%20request%20email]
7. http://www.sqa.org.uk/
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