Guy Forkes
Date
22 March 2024
Post Office
100 Wood Street
request-1097620-
London EC2V 9ER
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Your Ref:
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Dear Guy Forkes,
Freedom of Information Request – FOI2024/00381
We are writing in response to your email received by Post Office Limited (“
Post
Office”) on 6 March, which has been dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (“
FOIA”).
Post Office can confirm that we do hold the information in your request shown
verbatim in bold below:
“
Post Office states the following on its Corporate website around the EDI topic:
"We expect everyone at Post Office to make both a personal commitment to
diversity and inclusion and set a standard for others to follow. Our people reflect
the diversity of the communities in which we live and work and the customers we
serve."
"We are also signed to the Race at Work charter which keeps us on track to
embed ED&I into everything we do at Post Office."
Please state how many and what percentage of Senior Executives within Post
Office Limited identify as black, Asian, mixed or other ethnicity.
For your information, 18% identify as black, Asian, mixed or other ethnic group in
the 2021 Census data for England and Wales.”
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Post Office Limited is registered in England and Wales. Registered No. 2154540.
Registered Office 100 Wood Street, London WC2V 7ER
postoffice.co.uk
Post Office and the Post Office logo are registered trade marks of Post Office Limited.
We have interpreted Senior Executives to mean colleagues in our Executive and
Senior Leadership populations.
From the latest Diversity dashboard report produced at the end of February 2024
there were 8 people (11.1%) of our Executive and Senior Leadership within Post
Office that identify as black, Asian, mixed or other ethnicity.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of this response, you do have a right to
request an internal review. You can do this by writing to the address above within 40
working days of receipt of this response stating your reasons for your internal review
request or alternatively, by emailing
xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx. If, having requested an internal review by Post Office, you are still not satisfied with
our response you also have a right of appeal to the Information Commissioner at:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Telephone: 0303 123 1113
www.ico.org.uk/foicomplaints
Yours sincerely,
Information Rights Team
xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx
https://corporate.postoffice.co.uk/en/governance/access-to-information/access-to-
information/
Post Office Limited is committed to protecting your privacy, information about
how we do this can be found on our website at www.postoffice.co.uk/privacy
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