Information about Stonewall Workplace Equality Index (WEI).
Dear Royal Navy,
Please can you
1. Confirm whether your organisation applied to be part of the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index in A) 2018 (for 2019), B) 2019 (for 2020) or C) 2021 (for 2022) (NB the index was suspended in 2020/21 because of Covid)
2. Give details of the total amount of money you paid to Stonewall in 2021 whether or not as payment for goods or services.
3. State whether you intend to continue your membership of any Stonewall scheme in the future, and if so which.
If the answer to any part of 1 is yes please supply:
4. Any application you made in 2021 to be included on Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index, including any attachments or appendices to those applications. Please redact personal details if necessary.
5. Any feedback you received in 2018/19 or 2019/20 or 2021/22 from Stonewall in relation to either application or programme. This must include the priorities or objectives written by your organisation’s representative at the end of the feedback form (under the heading ‘Priorities for the year ahead’ in 2019; ‘Your priorities’ in 2020).
EXEMPTIONS?
If your organisation is considering refusing to disclose feedback received as part of the Stonewall scheme by relying on section 41 (confidential information) and/or section 43 (commercial interest) of FOI, please note the recent ICO decisions IC-129040-Y4T2 and IC-125081-Q8J6 which rejected these reasons. Sex Matters has written a short briefing on these two ICO decisions – please see www.sex-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2...
Yours faithfully,
Nicholas Davies
Dear Mr Davies,
Your request has been logged under our reference FOI2022/09169.
The Freedom of Information Act requires a response to be provided to a
request under the Act within 20 working days from date of receipt and we
therefore aim to respond to you by 31 August 2022.
Yours sincerely,
Navy Command Secretariat - FOI
Dear Mr Davies,
We are currently processing your FOI request and due to the volume of
information you have requested, we may be unable to send the information
electronically. As such, can you please provide us with your postal
address to enable us to send any recorded information we hold in scope of
your request which has been cleared for release to you in hard copy?
If you are content to do so, we would recommend you respond to this email
address with your personal details.
We look forward to hearing from your in due course.
Yours sincerely,
Navy Command Secretariat - FOI Section
Please be aware that the Government’s contingency planning for the
Coronavirus (COVID-19) is currently impacting on our ability to process
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patience and understanding during this time.
Dear Navy StratPol-SEC FOI (MULTIUSER),
I am informed that section 8.1.b of the FOI Act asks for an "address for correspondence", and that the email address I am using is quite sufficient.
The Ministry of Justice has guidance on this– “As well as hard copy written correspondence, requests that are transmitted electronically (for example, in emails) are acceptable. If a request is received by email and no postal address is given, the email address should be treated as the return address.”
The Information Commissioner’s guidance for organisations says “A request must include an address for correspondence. This need not be the person’s residential or work address - it can be any address at which you can write to them, including a postal address or email address;”
Paragraph 107 of the Information Commissioner’s Guidance on recognising a request under the Freedom of Information Act now contains a section specifically on WhatDoTheyKnow which states:
With respect to the address for correspondence, we consider the @whatdotheyknow.com email address provided to authorities when requests are made through the site to be a valid contact address for the purposes of Section 8(1)(b).
Yours sincerely,
Nicholas Davies
Dear Mr Davies,
In accordance with the attached letter, the date that the response is due
for your request, 2022/09093, has been changed to 28 September 2022.
Kind Regards
Navy Command Secretariat - FOI
Dear Mr Davies,
Please find attached our response to your recent enquiry.
Regards
Navy Command Secretariat - FOI
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