FOI Stonewall Diversity (0641-2022/23)

Request

1. Please confirm whether North Yorkshire Police is currently or has been a member of the Stonewall Diversity Champions scheme at any time in the last five years.
2. If so, please provide the amount of any money paid to Stonewall in 2021/22, whether or not as payment for goods and services.
3. Please confirm whether North Yorkshire Police has made a submission to the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index in the last five years.
4. If so, please provide a copy of North Yorkshire Police’s most recent submission to the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index.
5. Please confirm whether North Yorkshire Police has an LGBT Network.
6. If so, please provide minutes from the last meeting of North Yorkshire Police’s LGBT Network and the amount of any funding North Yorkshire Police assigns to the LGBT Network.
7. Please confirm whether officers from North Yorkshire Police attended any Pride events this year and for what purpose.
8. Please provide a list of any training carried out by North Yorkshire Police relating to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
9. Please provide details of any third party training providers, stakeholders or external partners employed by North Yorkshire Police in relation to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
10. Please provide copies of any policies and/or training materials that North Yorkshire Police holds regarding its duty to comply with Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Response

Extent and Result of Searches to Locate Information

To locate the information relevant to your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police. 

I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by North Yorkshire Police. 

Decision

Q1. The information you have requested is published on the North Yorkshire Police website under the following link

FOI - Stonewall | North Yorkshire Police

I have therefore decided to exempt providing you with a response to Q1 pursuant to Section 21 Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act).

Q2-4. N/A

Q5. Yes, North Yorkshire Police have an LGBT Staff Support Network.

Q6. There is no information is held in relation to this question.

Q7. Yes – Officers attend Pride to encourage engagement and to build trust and confidence with our LGBTQ+ communities and to show solidarity to our LGBTQ+ workforce and communities. Being within the parade is voluntary and no officer is forced to work pride unless there is an operational need to e.g. cordons and assisting with public order policing.

Q8. We raise awareness with all our new recruits through their induction and are also rolling out training to all 3 organisations, starting with individuals with line manager responsibilities. 

Q9. We do use third party companies however they are not employed by NYP

Q10. There is no information is held in relation to this question.

Section 17 of the Act requires North Yorkshire Police, when refusing to provide such information (because the information is exempt) to provide you the applicant with a notice which: (a) states that fact, (b) specifies the exemption in question and (c) states (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the exemption applies.

Section 21 – Information Reasonably Accessible by Other Means

Section 21 is an absolute class based exemption and I am not required to consider the harm or public interest when applying this exemption.

Pursuant to Section 17(1) of the Act this letter acts as a Refusal Notice in response to your request.

Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data.  It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.