Equality & Diversity team 958/2025
FOI Reference: 958/2025
Request:
This is an information request relating to equality, diversity and inclusion staff within the force.
Please include the following information:
- Does the force have a dedicated team for equality, diversity and inclusion, i.e. a team separate to the human resources team which might otherwise be expected to fulfil the role of ensuring the force meets its commitments under the equalities act?
- If so, please provide the number of staff working in this team.
Please also include as much of the following information as possible:
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- The job title of each role.
- The pay band of each role (including the monetary amounts).
- The FTE of the role, e.g. if a role is only 4 days a week this would be expressed as 0.8 FTE.
- Please also provide the following information for the 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25:
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- The number of FTE roles in the equality, diversity and inclusion team on the final date of each financial year.
- The total cost of these roles as existed on the final date of each financial year.
- Please also provide the latest equality, diversity and inclusion strategy the force has published, or the one currently in place.
Response 1:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.
Yes.
Response 2:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.
Staff working within the Equality Diversity and Welsh Language department:
Equality Diversity and Welsh Language Manager – £47,712 to £51,294; 1 FTE
Equality Diversity and Welsh Language Officer – £31,296 to £34,329; 1 FTE
Equality Diversity and Welsh Language Support – £24,675 to £26,106; 0.76 FTE
Positive Action Officer – £31,296 to £34,329; 1 FTE
Equality Diversity and Engagement Coordinator (temporary until March 2026) – £31,296 to £34,329; 1 FTE
Response 3:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.
2022:
Equality Diversity and Welsh Language Manager – Scale H; 1FTE
Equality Diversity and Welsh Language Officer – Scale E; 1FTE
Equality Diversity and Welsh Language Support – Scale C; 1FTE
Positive Action Officer – Scale E; 1FTE
2023:
Equality Diversity and Welsh Language Manager – Scale H; 1FTE
Equality Diversity and Welsh Language Officer – Scale E; 1FTE
Equality Diversity and Welsh Language Support – Scale C; 0.75FTE
Positive Action Officer – Scale E; 1FTE
2024:
Equality Diversity and Welsh Language Manager – Scale H; 1FTE
Equality Diversity and Welsh Language Officer – Scale E; 1FTE
Equality Diversity and Welsh Language Support – Scale C; 0.75FTE
Positive Action Officer – Scale E; 1FTE
2022-23: 4 FTE
2023-24: 3.75 FTE
2024-25: 3.75 FTE
2022-23: £156,927.83
2023-24: £153,349.05
2024-25: £142,143.75
Response 4:
Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 places two duties on public authorities. Unless exemptions apply, the first duty at Section 1(1)(a) is to confirm or deny whether the information specified in a request is held. The second duty at Section 1(1)(b) is to disclose information that has been confirmed as being held.
Where exemptions are relied upon Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 requires -Powys 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.
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, however the following exemption has been applied to the whole of the information you have requested:
Section 21 – Information reasonably accessible by other means:
(1) Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant otherwise than under section 1 is exempt information.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)—
(a)information may be reasonably accessible to the applicant even though it is accessible only on payment, and
(b) information is to be taken to be reasonably accessible to the applicant if it is information which the public authority or any other person is obliged by or under any enactment to communicate (otherwise than by making the information available for inspection) to members of the public on request, whether free of charge or on payment.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), information which is held by a public authority and does not fall within subsection (2)(b) is not to be regarded as reasonably accessible to the applicant merely because the information is available from the public authority itself on request, unless the information is made available in accordance with the authority’s publication scheme and any payment required is specified in, or determined in accordance with, the scheme.”
The information requested can be accessed via the following hyperlink –
https://www.dyfed-powys.police.uk/SysSiteAssets/media/downloads/dyfed-powys/about-us/equality-and-diversity/our-equality-objectives/strategic-equality-plan-2024-2028.pdf
(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 09/10/2025)
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