Information about Stonewall Workplace Equality Index (WEI)

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Dear Department of Finance (Northern Ireland),

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,

A J H

DoF FOI, Department of Finance (Northern Ireland)

Good morning,

 

Thank you for your request for information, however I will not be able to
proceed with your request without the provision of your name.

 

The ICO guidance advises that for a request to be valid we need 2 parts of
a name, please see ICO guidance [1]here and in particular point 25.

 

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name.

 

FOI/EIR unit

 

 

 

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Dear DoF FOI,
I have been asked to submit my name

Yours sincerely,

Amanda Hayman

DoF FOI, Department of Finance (Northern Ireland)

Good morning,

The Department of Finance acknowledges receipt of your request for information – your reference number is DOF/2022-0283. In line with FOI/EIR legislation, the department has up to 20 working days to respond to your request and therefore you should expect a response no later than 30 August 2022.

The department’s Right to Know leaflet provides an outline of your rights under the Freedom of Information Act and Environmental Information Regulations, and explains how your request will be dealt with.  You can also read the department’s Information Access Requests Privacy Notice.

Please note, information released by the Department of Finance in response to Freedom of Information and Environmental Information Regulations requests is routinely published on the department’s FOI/EIR Disclosure Log.

Tracy Beattie
FOI/EIR Team
Communications and Engagement Division
Department of Finance

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DoF FOI, Department of Finance (Northern Ireland)

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Good afternoon

 

 

Please see attached update from DoF regarding your recent request for
information.

 

FOI/EIR Team

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Good afternoon

 

Please see attached response to your recent request for information.

 

Regards

FOI/EIR Team