LGBTQ+ and BAME Councillors

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Dear Elmbridge Borough Council,

Please can you supply numbers of your councillors that identify themselves as belonging/associated to the following communities:

(1) BAME

(2) LGBTQ+

Data to be accurate if at all possible, up to and including 17th November 2020

Yours faithfully,

Mr M P Hay

Freedom of Information, Elmbridge Borough Council

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Marianne Bailey, Elmbridge Borough Council

Dear Mr. Hay,

 

I refer to your Freedom of Information request (my reference 2020-21 FOI
No. 419) and am able to advise you that 25 of the 47 Members of the
Council have completed information relating to ethnicity.

 

With regard to the BAME community, 3 Members have self-identified as
follows:

 

Asian/Asian British - Bangladeshi = 1

Asian - Indian = 1

Black/Black British - African = 1

 

I can confirm that the Council does not hold information relating to
whether Members identify themselves as LGBTQ+.

 

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Yours sincerely,

 

 

Marianne Bailey | Committee & Member Services Manager | Democratic
Services

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