Information about the Equality Impact Assessment for the Transgender Action Plan

The request was partially successful.

Dear Welsh Government,

I am making a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to be supplied with the following information regarding the Equality Impact Assessment for the Transgender Action Plan published by Welsh Government in March 2016:

1. Was the Equality Impact Assessment undertaken by Welsh Government staff or was it contracted out to an external organisation?

2. If it was contracted out to an external organisation please supply the name of that organisation.

3. Please supply the names of all organisations which were consulted or otherwise involved in the production of the Equality Impact Assessment. This list should include, but is not limited to, the names of all groups which were included in the consultation stage of the drafting of the Equality Impact Assessment which is outlined in Step 5 of the Welsh Government good practice guidelines: http://www.eiapractice.wales.nhs.uk/step...

4. In your response to my previous FOI request 13341 you included a document Scanned Papers.pdf which consists of Ministerial Advice reference MA-P/LG/1253/15. In section 6 of this document it is stated that an Equality Impact Assessment had been drafted at the start of the consultation process and would continue to be updated and then published alongside the Transgender Action Plan. Please supply the most recent available draft of this Equality Impact Assessment.

Yours faithfully,

E. Williams

Welsh Government

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Dear E. Williams

 

Please see attached letter regarding your recent FOI request.

 

Kind regards

Sian

Siân Lewis

Yr Is-Adran Gymunedau / Communities Division

Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government

 

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eich preifatrwydd. Rydym yn croesawu gohebiaeth yn Gymraeg. Byddwn yn
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protection of your data seriously. If you contact the Welsh Government
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ways in which we protect your privacy. We welcome receiving correspondence
in Welsh. Any correspondence received in Welsh will be answered in Welsh
and corresponding in Welsh will not lead to a delay in responding.

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Please find attached a response to FOI 13440.

 

Sganiwyd y neges hon am bob feirws hysbys wrth iddi adael Llywodraeth
Cymru. Mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn cymryd o ddifrif yr angen i ddiogelu eich
data. Os cysylltwch â Llywodraeth Cymru, mae ein [1]hysbysiad preifatrwydd
yn esbonio sut rydym yn defnyddio eich gwybodaeth a sut rydym yn diogelu
eich preifatrwydd. Rydym yn croesawu gohebiaeth yn Gymraeg. Byddwn yn
anfon ateb yn Gymraeg i ohebiaeth a dderbynnir yn Gymraeg ac ni fydd
gohebu yn Gymraeg yn arwain at oedi. On leaving the Welsh Government this
email was scanned for all known viruses. The Welsh Government takes the
protection of your data seriously. If you contact the Welsh Government
then our [2]Privacy Notice explains how we use your information and the
ways in which we protect your privacy. We welcome receiving correspondence
in Welsh. Any correspondence received in Welsh will be answered in Welsh
and corresponding in Welsh will not lead to a delay in responding.

References

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2. https://gov.wales/about/welsh-government...

Dear Welsh Government,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Welsh Government's handling of my FOI request 'Information about the Equality Impact Assessment for the Transgender Action Plan'.

I do not consider request 4 to be a repeated request. In my FOI request of 6th March (ATISN 13028) I asked for the final published Equality Impact Assessment which should have been published on the Welsh Government website alongside the Transgender Action Plan. My current request is for any existing previous draft of the Equality Impact Assessment, such as the one which was mentioned in the ministerial briefing which was supplied in response to my request of 6th August (ATISN 13341). If more than one draft still exists, my request was to be supplied with the most recent one. If there are no existing drafts of the Equality Impact Assessment, and all of them have been lost or destroyed, please state this explicitly.

I would also like to make a comment on your use of outside sources for Welsh Government documents. In your response you provided a link to the summary of responses to the consultation which was carried out for the Transgender Action Plan. This link goes to the website of Dr Helen Webberley’s company GenderGP. Dr Webberley is currently suspended by the GMC and also has a criminal record after being found guilty of running an unregistered clinic following a prosecution brought by Healthcare Inspectorate Wales last year. I find it inappropriate that the Welsh Government should provide a link to such a discredited source for their own documents.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/i...

Yours faithfully,
E. Williams

Welsh Government

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Please find attached the response to FOI 13440 request.

 

 

Sganiwyd y neges hon am bob feirws hysbys wrth iddi adael Llywodraeth
Cymru. Mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn cymryd o ddifrif yr angen i ddiogelu eich
data. Os cysylltwch â Llywodraeth Cymru, mae ein [1]hysbysiad preifatrwydd
yn esbonio sut rydym yn defnyddio eich gwybodaeth a sut rydym yn diogelu
eich preifatrwydd. Rydym yn croesawu gohebiaeth yn Gymraeg. Byddwn yn
anfon ateb yn Gymraeg i ohebiaeth a dderbynnir yn Gymraeg ac ni fydd
gohebu yn Gymraeg yn arwain at oedi. On leaving the Welsh Government this
email was scanned for all known viruses. The Welsh Government takes the
protection of your data seriously. If you contact the Welsh Government
then our [2]Privacy Notice explains how we use your information and the
ways in which we protect your privacy. We welcome receiving correspondence
in Welsh. Any correspondence received in Welsh will be answered in Welsh
and corresponding in Welsh will not lead to a delay in responding.

References

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Dear Welsh Government,

I have not yet had a response to my request for an internal review of my FOI request, reference 13440. The request for the internal review was made on 29th October 2019 and in your acknowledgement letter of 31st October I was informed that you would complete this internal review and write to me by 26th November 2019. Your response is now overdue.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/i...

Yours faithfully,

E. Williams

Welsh Government

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Dear E Williams,

 

Please find attached the response to ATISN 13440 request for internal
review.

 

Thank you.

 

The Equality Branch

 

 

 

 

 

Sganiwyd y neges hon am bob feirws hysbys wrth iddi adael Llywodraeth
Cymru. Mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn cymryd o ddifrif yr angen i ddiogelu eich
data. Os cysylltwch â Llywodraeth Cymru, mae ein [1]hysbysiad preifatrwydd
yn esbonio sut rydym yn defnyddio eich gwybodaeth a sut rydym yn diogelu
eich preifatrwydd. Rydym yn croesawu gohebiaeth yn Gymraeg. Byddwn yn
anfon ateb yn Gymraeg i ohebiaeth a dderbynnir yn Gymraeg ac ni fydd
gohebu yn Gymraeg yn arwain at oedi. On leaving the Welsh Government this
email was scanned for all known viruses. The Welsh Government takes the
protection of your data seriously. If you contact the Welsh Government
then our [2]Privacy Notice explains how we use your information and the
ways in which we protect your privacy. We welcome receiving correspondence
in Welsh. Any correspondence received in Welsh will be answered in Welsh
and corresponding in Welsh will not lead to a delay in responding.

References

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1. file:///tmp/”https:/gov.wales/about/welsh-government-privacy-notice/?lang=cy”
2. https://gov.wales/about/welsh-government...