Racism Complaints

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information:

1. How many complaints of racism have been received for the calendar years 2020, 2021 and 2022 to date? 

2. How many of these complaints were upheld each year?

3. How many of these complaints resulted in a disciplinary process each year (break into calendar years 2020, 2021 and 2022 to date)?

4. How many of these complaints resulted in the accused losing their job each year  (break into calendar years 2020, 2021 and 2022 to date?

For each question please provide the rank of the person who is accused of racism and if it is more senior than the alleged victim. 

If it is not possible to answer this request in its entirety due to one or more questions exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please answer the ones that do not exceed the limits and disregard the ones that do.

If it is not possible to provide any of the information requested due to the request exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under your Section 16 obligations, as to how I can refine my request to be included in the scope of the Act.

In any case, if you can identify ways that my request could be refined please provide further advice and assistance to indicate this.

I look forward to your response within 20 working days, as stipulated by the Act.

If you have any queries or clarification requests, please don’t hesitate to contact me via email.