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Dear [Name Removed]

I refer to your Freedom of Information request to which I am now in a
position to respond on behalf of Broadland District Council.

Under section 1(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am
advising you that the Council does not hold the information you have
requested.

This is because we do not collate this information when employing a new
member of staff.  We do ask applicants to complete an optional statement
to confirm their ethnicity/religious beliefs etc but this is not stored
with the application.  Once employed, we do ask staff to complete a survey
on our HR system, but again this is optional. 

However, to aid and assist you, I can advise that since our current HR
system has been in place since 2020, we have had no new employees who have
chosen to identify themselves as British Pakistani.  We do not hold any
such data prior to 2020.

I hope this is of assistance and is sufficient to meet your requirements,
but if, for whatever reason you wish to get back to me, please feel free
to do so. In particular if you are unhappy with the information provided
or how your request was handled please let me know and I will explain how
you can request an internal review of our decision. 

Please quote BFOI 22-125 in any further correspondence concerning this
request.

Regards.

Sue

Sue White
Senior Governance and Deputy Monitoring Officer
t  01508 533800 e [email address]  

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