Stonewall Membership
Keywords
Stonewall; Transgender; Expenditure; Finance; Purchases; Subscriptions; Diversity; Membership;
Publication Number
PUB 1428
FOI Reference Number
15748
Request Title
Stonewall
Date Range
2011 to 2021
Information Requested
1) Is Essex Police a member of the Stonewall Diversity Scheme, or any other Stonewall membership scheme?
2) If "yes" to Q1, for how many years has Essex Police been a member?
3) How much money in total has Essex Police spent on membership of any Stonewall schemes between Jan 2011 - present?
4) If "yes" to Q1 does Essex Police intend to renew any annual subscriptions to Stonewall when they fall due?
Disclosure with Exemptions
Full disclosure
Information Correct as at
14 June 2021
Date of Disclosure
14 June 2021
Related Documents/Links
N/A
FOI 15748 Response
1) Is Essex Police a member of the Stonewall Diversity Scheme, or any other Stonewall membership scheme?
No
2) If "yes" to Q1, for how many years has Essex Police been a member?
N/A
3) How much money in total has Essex Police spent on membership of any Stonewall schemes between Jan 2011 - present?
Nil
4) If "yes" to Q1 does Essex Police intend to renew any annual subscriptions to Stonewall when they fall due?
N/A
We are aware that Essex Police have spent £514.80 in relation to an attendance fee of a conference in 2019.
FOI Reference Number
15458
Request Title
Stonewall
Date Range
2019 to 2021
Information Requested
1. Any application you made in 2019, 2020 or 2021 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 from Stonewall in relation to either application or programme.
3. Communication you have received from Stonewall in 2019, 2020 and 2021 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 (iii) in 2021 whether or not as payment for goods or services.
Disclosure with Exemptions
No Information Held
Information Correct as at
14 June 2021
Date of Disclosure
14 June 2021
Related Documents/Links
N/A
FOI 15458 Response
Having completed enquiries within Essex Police and in respect of Section 1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold information relating to Question 5, under Section 1 1(b) Essex Police can confirm that payment was paid to Stonewall in May 2019 for £514.80 which was for an attendance fee for a Stonewall Workplace Conference.
Essex Police does not hold information relating to Question 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Outside of the act Essex Police can provide the following comment in relation to the work that is currently being undertaken in respect of Diversity.
Essex Police believes in dignity for all and are on a journey of incremental improvements, including how we can better include and enable the aspirations of people who are LGBTQ. Our commitment is set out in our diversity strategy, as launched on 30 November 2020, and will be further reaffirmed in mandatory staff training, covering all protected characteristics and groups in line with the Equality Act 2010. Our LGBTQ staff network helps to inform our work and this is greatly appreciated by the Chief Constable. For more information about our commitment and related activities, please write to our D&I Manager at [email protected]