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LGBT, Race Equality & Decolonisation work (2022)

Request

  1. Could you please provide details of any work undertaken by any LGBT groups at the organisation.
  2. In addition could you please provide the any email correspondence from January 1 (ideally) up to date to and from any heads of department, and any head of diversity and inclusion (or equivalent departmentally or overall) in relation to this work.
  3. Including any of the search terms “Stonewall”, “Mermaids”, “transgender” “Trans”, “cisgender”, “heteronormative” “pronouns” “woke”
  4. Could you please provide details of any work undertaken by any race equality or diversity groups at the organisation.
  5. In addition could you please provide the any email correspondence from January 1 (ideally) up to date to and from any heads of department, and any head of diversity and inclusion (or equivalent departmentally or overall) in relation to this work.
  6. Including any of the search terms “Black Lives Matter (BLM)”, “decolonisation”, “white supremacy/supremacism”, “white privilege” “institutional racism”, “imperialism” “colonialism” “British Empire” “whiteness” “blackness”
  7. Can you please provide details of all work which may come under the header of “decolonisation” , for example work undertaken to review policies, collections if applicable, labelling, educational/guide material, or produce to make them more diverse in scope. Ideally this would be in the format of the original internal documents outlining or approving these plans, rather than a summary

 

 

Response

Please understand that, given your further request for information relating to internal teams of the House, we have interpreted this request to be about LGBT groups who are external to our organisation undertaking work at or for the House of Commons.

1. Could you please provide details of any work undertaken by any LGBT groups at the organisation.

The House of Commons was a member of the Stonewall Diversity Champions Programme between 2011 and 2020, and we hold information about our membership of this programme and the events and conferences that representatives of ours participated in during that time.

This information is already available from a public source. This information is therefore exempt from disclosure in accordance with section 21(1) and (2)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), which removes from a public authority the obligation to provide access to information which is already in the public domain. This is an absolute exemption and the public interest test does not apply.

However, it may help you to know that this information can be found on the FOI Disclosure pages of our website at:
• Stonewall membership 2021
• Stonewall fees 2021
• Stonewall 2021

We do not hold any records of any other external ‘LGBT groups’ undertaking work at or for the House of Commons.

2. In addition could you please provide the any email correspondence from January 1 (ideally) up to date to and from any heads of department, and any head of diversity and inclusion (or equivalent departmentally or overall) in relation to this work.
And
3. Including any of the search terms “Stonewall”, “Mermaids”, “transgender” “Trans”, “cisgender”, “heteronormative” “pronouns” “woke”

This information is not held by the House of Commons. The House of Commons ended its affiliation with Stonewall in 2020.

4. Could you please provide details of any work undertaken by any race equality or diversity groups at the organisation.
And
5. In addition could you please provide the any email correspondence from January 1 (ideally) up to date to and from any heads of department, and any head of diversity and inclusion (or equivalent departmentally or overall) in relation to this work.
And
6. Including any of the search terms “Black Lives Matter (BLM)”, “decolonisation”, “white supremacy/supremacism”, “white privilege” “institutional racism”, “imperialism” “colonialism” “British Empire” “whiteness” “blackness”

This information is not held by the House of Commons. We do not hold any records of any external ‘race equality or diversity’ groups undertaking work at or for the House of Commons.

7. Can you please provide details of all work which may come under the header of “decolonisation” , for example work undertaken to review policies, collections if applicable, labelling, educational/guide material, or produce to make them more diverse in scope. Ideally this would be in the format of the original internal documents outlining or approving these plans, rather than a summary

This information is not held by the House of Commons. We have not undertaken any work which has been termed or ‘comes under the header of’ decolonisation.


It may help you to know that more information about diversity and inclusion at the House of Commons, including a copy of our latest Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, is available on the House of Commons Commission pages of our website.