Information about your dealings with Stonewall [Extraneous material removed]

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Dear Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government,

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,

C Griffiths

MHCLG Correspondence,

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Dear C Griffiths
 
Thank you for your Information Request of 8 February 2021.
 
We will aim to send you a response by 8 March 2021.
 
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Yours faithfully
 
 
 
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Dear C Griffiths,
 
Freedom of Information Act 2000

Thank you for your request concerning:

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. 

We are actively considering your request but unfortunately we need more
time to process it. This is because we are looking at the balance of
public interest for and against disclosure of the information you
requested.

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 allows this when one or more qualified
exemptions apply to the information. In this case, the qualified exemption
we are considering is section 43, which relates to the commercial
interests of a third party.
 
We will now try to respond to you by 8 April 2021.
 
Kind regards,
 
MHCLG FOI Team
 
 
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Dear C Griffiths,
 
Thank you for your request for information dated 8 February 2021.
 
Unfortunately we are unable to provide all of this information. Please
find attached our formal response which sets out the reasons for this, as
well as the information that we are able to provide.
 
Kind regards,
MHCLG FOI Team

 
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