Information about your dealings with Stonewall [Extraneous material removed]

The request was partially successful.

Dear Goldsmiths, University of London,

This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). Please provide any information that you hold answering to any of the following descriptions:

1. Any application you made in 2019 or 2020 to be a “Stonewall Diversity Champion” or to be included on Stonewall’s “Workplace Equality Index,” including any attachments or appendices to those applications. Please redact personal details if necessary.

2. Any feedback you received in 2019 or 2020 from Stonewall in relation to either application or programme.

3. Any other communication you have received from Stonewall in 2019 or 2020 unless privileged or otherwise exempt from disclosure (but if you claim privilege or exemption in relation to any material, please say in broad terms what the material is and the basis on which you claim to be entitled to withhold it).

4. Full details of any equality impact assessment you carried out connected with any of these applications (including any equality impact assessment carried out prior to an earlier application of the same kind, if no further assessment was done).

5. Details of the total amount of money you paid to Stonewall (i) in 2019; (ii) in 2020, whether or not as payment for goods or services.

6. Whether you intend to continue your membership of any Stonewall scheme in the future, and if so which.

Yours faithfully,

N Jones

Goldsmiths Information Access, Goldsmiths, University of London

Dear N Jones,

We are writing to formally acknowledge your Freedom of Information (FOI) request, which has been logged as FOI - 2149

You will appreciate that all information requests place some degree of demand on a public authority's resources in terms of costs and staff time and that Goldsmiths may need to prioritise resources to other areas, or adapt its usual approach to information governance work, in order to meet the unprecedented challenges we are all facing during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Therefore, we need to advise you that are likely to experience delays in receiving responses to information rights requests during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Yours sincerely,

Information Governance
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross,
London, SE14 6AF

Email: [email address]

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Goldsmiths Information Access, Goldsmiths, University of London

Dear N Jones,

I am writing in response to your freedom of information request, reference
2149, with apologies for our delay.

You requested:

1. Any application you made in 2019 or 2020 to be a “Stonewall Diversity
Champion” or to be included on Stonewall’s “Workplace Equality Index,”
including any attachments or appendices to those applications. Please
redact personal details if necessary.

2. Any feedback you received in 2019 or 2020 from Stonewall in relation to
either application or programme.

3. Any other communication you have received from Stonewall in 2019 or
2020 unless privileged or otherwise exempt from disclosure (but if you
claim privilege or exemption in relation to any material, please say in
broad terms what the material is and the basis on which you claim to be
entitled to withhold it).

4. Full details of any equality impact assessment you carried out
connected with any of these applications (including any equality impact
assessment carried out prior to an earlier application of the same kind,
if no further assessment was done).

5. Details of the total amount of money you paid to Stonewall (i) in 2019;
(ii) in 2020, whether or not as payment for goods or services.

6. Whether you intend to continue your membership of any Stonewall scheme
in the future, and if so which.

 

Our response:

I need to advise you that Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act
2000 (FOIA) states that a public authority is not obliged to comply with a
request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of
complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit. As a
non-central government department, our appropriate limit is 18 hours to
determine whether we hold the information you request, locate, retrieve
and extract it.

In this instance we have identified over 350 emails from Stonewall to
individuals at Goldsmiths over the period 2019 to 2020. We estimate that
the activity required to scrutinize each email communication to determine
its relevance to your request along with the activity required to locate,
retrieve and extract the other information you have asked for, would
exceed 18 hours. Therefore, your request will not be processed further.

However, in order to be helpful to you we are able to provide the
following link to access the College’s webpage regarding equality and
diversity: [1]https://www.gold.ac.uk/equality-diversity/, where you will
find information on our partnerships with external organizations alongside
our Equality and Diversity Strategy and Objective and Action Plan 2017 -
2021.

I hope this response satisfies your Freedom of Information request.
However, if you are dissatisfied with this response, you may ask for it to
be reviewed by either contacting us by email: [2][email address] or by
writing to:

 

Data Protection Officer

Goldsmiths, University of London

New Cross,

London, SE14 6AF

 

Please describe the original request, explain your grounds for
dissatisfaction, and include an address for correspondence.

If you are still not satisfied following the internal review, you have a
right to appeal to the Information Commissioner who can be contacted at
the following address.

 

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Telephone: 01625 545 700

[3]www.ico.gov.uk

 

Yours sincerely,

Information Governance

Goldsmiths, University of London

New Cross,

London, SE14 6AF

 

Email: [4][email address]

 

 

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