FOI 64-22: Stonewall

Information Standards Freedom of Information Response

Our Ref: FOI 64-22

21 November 2022

Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“FOIA”)

I am writing to confirm that the Northern Ireland Assembly Commission (Assembly Commission) has processed your request dated 14 November 2022 in line with the Freedom of Information Act 2000. In your request, you asked:

“Is the NI Assembly submitting, or has it submitted, and entry to be indexed by Stonewall in their 2023 Workplace Equality Index?

Whether the answer is yes or no, what is the name and job title of the most senior person who made this decision.”

The Assembly Commission has no contractual relationship with Stonewall. Therefore, no decision was required on submitting or not submitting an entry for its Workplace Equality Index.

You have the right to request a formal review by the Assembly Commission and if you wish to do so, please write to me at the above address. If after such an internal review you are still unhappy with the response, you may appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF which will undertake an independent review.

The Assembly Commission may publish details of your FOI request and its official response within the organisational disclosure log. The request will be completely anonymised and you will not be identified in any way. This is to meet the requirements as laid out by in the agreed publication scheme with the Information Commissioners’ Office.

Yours sincerely

INFORMATION STANDARDS