Information about your dealings with Stonewall [Extraneous material removed]
Dear City of York Council,
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 Gleave
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Dear C Gleave
Please find attached a letter providing a response to your Freedom of
Information request - Information about your dealings with Stonewall
#DontSubmitToStonewall. Along with email communications from Stonewall.
Regards
Linda How | Performance and Change HR Manager
I am currently working from home please contact me via mobile, email or
skype call
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City of York Council | Customers and Business Support
Human Resources | West Offices, Station Rise | York YO1 6GA
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Dear City of York Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of City of York Council's handling of my FOI request 'Information about your dealings with Stonewall.
I am not persuaded that a full account has been provided in answer to the questions I originally asked. Namely, no information has been provided as to applications made in 2019 and 2020; no feedback has been sent through regarding that application from Stonewall; no details of any Equality Impact Assessment has been submitted (or evidence that one was carried out); no indication has been given as to whether York City Council intends to maintain their membership of the scheme and no details provided of any money paid to Stonewall for services provided.
Such information will and ought to be available. As a member of the Diversity Champion Scheme Stonewall will have provided feedback in the form of email communications that are disclosable under FOI legislation.
I do not think your approach to this question is consistent with your duty under section 16 of the Freedom of Information Act to provide advice and assistance to me as a person who has requested information from you, and I would ask you to have careful regard to that duty in dealing with this application for review. In particularly, if you consider that taken literally my request would put you to excessive cost, but you can see a different way of formulating my request that would make it possible for you to respond in substance, then you should suggest that reformulation and offer to respond accordingly.
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,
C Gould
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(COVID-19) pandemic, please be aware that we may take longer to respond to
your request.
For information:
· The timescale for responding to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
and Environmental Information Regulation (EIR) requests is up to 20
working days. We will contact you promptly if we need you to clarify your
request or an extension to complete a public interest test.
· The timescale for responding to requests for a review, for FOIA
or EIR responses, is up to 20 working days. You are also able to contact
the Information Commissioner, contact details below:
· The timescale for responding to your rights in relation to
personal data eg: subject access to records (SAR) request, is up to 1
month. We will contact you promptly if we require further information
from you, or an extension.
· The timescale for responding to requests for a review, of
responses to your rights regarding personal data, is up to 1 month. You
are also able to contact the Information Commissioner, contact details
below:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Tel: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745 if you prefer to use a
national rate number
Fax: 01625 524 510
Or email: [1][email address] (please include your telephone number in
your email)
You can find more information about how we deal with Freedom of
Information Requests at
[2]https://www.york.gov.uk/freedom-informat...
You can find information about how the Corporate Governance Team deals
with your personal information at
[3]https://www.york.gov.uk/privacy/Corporat...
Regards
Corporate Governance Team
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