Information about Stonewall Workplace Equality Index (WEI)

The request was partially successful.

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,

Rob Nock

navystratpol-secfoi@mod.gov.uk, Royal Navy

Dear Mr Nock,

Your request has been logged under our reference FOI2022/09181.

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

Navy StratPol-SEC FOI (MULTIUSER), Royal Navy

Dear Mr Nock,

 

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
FOI requests.  Please be assured that all FOI requests will be actioned as
soon as possible, however due to factors beyond our control and the need
to adopt remote working practices there maybe delays in processing
requests and providing responses.  We would therefore ask for your
patience and understanding during this time.

 

Dear Navy StratPol-SEC FOI (MULTIUSER),

I see no logic as to why you could supply this information as paper but not electronically.

Please do supply electronically but if, when you have collated all the info, you find, for some real world reason, that you cannot supply it to this system electronically then please contact me and supply an email address I can privately email and provide my postal address.

Yours sincerely,

Rob N

Navy StratPol-SEC FOI (MULTIUSER), Royal Navy

Dear Mr Nock, thank you for your email.

We are unable to provide you with an email address other than this one, however you may wish to know that we are bound by the Data Protection Act 2018, so should we receive your postal address, this will only be used to provide you with the information you have requested.

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 FOI requests.  Please be assured that all FOI requests will be actioned as soon as possible, however due to factors beyond our control and the need to adopt remote working practices there maybe delays in processing requests and providing responses.  We would therefore ask for your patience and understanding during this time.

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Dear Navy StratPol-SEC FOI (MULTIUSER),
I have no idea what "this email address" is as I am contacting you via WhatDoTheyKnow and so email addresses etc are hidden. However the contents of my emails and my name etc are not and so I am not willing to put my email address into public view.

However that does not matter as you have a method of supplying the information to me and so you will have to supply it via email.

Thanks,

Yours sincerely,

Rob N

Navy StratPol-SEC FOI (MULTIUSER), Royal Navy

Dear Mr Nock,

Our apologies, we expected that our correspondence would highlight the email address.

For reference our email address is: [email address]

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 FOI requests.  Please be assured that all FOI requests will be actioned as soon as possible, however due to factors beyond our control and the need to adopt remote working practices there maybe delays in processing requests and providing responses.  We would therefore ask for your patience and understanding during this time.

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Dear Navy StratPol-SEC FOI (MULTIUSER),

The email address was removed from your reply by the WDTK system but it does not matter as you can just email me the necessary information.

Thanks,
Yours sincerely,

Rob N

navystratpol-secfoi@mod.gov.uk, Royal Navy

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Dear Mr Nock,

In accordance with the attached letter, the date that the response is due
for your request, 2022/09181, has been changed to 28 September 2022.

Kind Regards

Navy Command Secretariat - FOI

navystratpol-secfoi@mod.gov.uk, Royal Navy

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Dear Mr Nock,

Please find attached our response to your recent enquiry.

Regards

Navy Command Secretariat - FOI