Information about Stonewall Workplace Equality Index (WEI)

Mr C Jamieson made this Freedom of Information request to Leicestershire Constabulary Automatic anti-spam measures are in place for this older request. Please let us know if a further response is expected or if you are having trouble responding.

The request was partially successful.

Dear Leicestershire Constabulary,

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 2018, 2019, 2020 and 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 2018/19 or 2019/20 or 2021/22 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,

Mr C Jamieson

Dear Mr Jamieson

I acknowledge receipt of your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
This is receiving our attention and a response will be sent to you in due course.

Please note our Email address for correspondence regarding your request is [email address] quoting the reference number above.

Kind Regards

Elaine Smith 8750
Administration Assistant
Information Management
Specialist Support Directorate (SSD)
Leicestershire Police

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Dear FOI Team,

I refer to my previous request which I quote below for reference.

“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).”

I note that you should have responded promptly and by no later than 31 August. Unfortunately you have not yet responded, and so this letter is to remind you of the request. I will not hesitate to refer this matter to the Information Commissioner’s Office should you fail to respond as it is of vital public interest.

Yours sincerely,

Mr C Jamieson

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Good Afternoon Mr Jamieson,
Please find attached our response to your FOI request.
Leicestershire Police wish to apologise for the time taken to respond.
I have recently received an unprecedented number of FOI requests resulting in me struggling to respond within the time frame of the legislation.
I hope this has not caused you too much inconvenience.

Kind Regards,

Linda

Linda Dempsey
Freedom of Information Officer
Information Management
Specialist Services Directorate
Leicestershire Police

http://leics.police.uk
mail to: [email address]
Tel: 101. Extn 3308035 Voice Mail 8035

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Dear Linda,

Thank you for sending this response.

Best wishes
Mr Jamieson

Yours sincerely,

Mr C Jamieson

Dear Mr Jamieson,
I write to tell you that part of the information in the response letter was incorrect.
The correction is as follows:

Question 3.
The Deputy Chief Constable informs me the correct response is :
In regard our future position re Stonewall this remains under review on a yearly basis and we consult with our internal and external networks to inform our decision.
(We have not committed to retain part of stonewall).

Please accept my apologies and I trust this does not cause you too much inconvenience.
Kind Regards,

Linda

Linda Dempsey
Freedom of Information Officer
Information Management
Specialist Services Directorate
Leicestershire Police

http://leics.police.uk
mail to: [email address]
Tel: 101. Extn 3308035 Voice Mail 8035

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