The Environment Agency (EA) has beefed up its diversity credentials for Stonewall approval, it has been revealed. The EA applied for the scheme in both 2020 and 2022, where Stonewall ranked it as the 35th and 43rd best employer for LGBT people, respectively. An EA spokesman claimed: “The Environment Agency is a politically impartial body whose focus is protecting and enhancing the environment. Also last year, Health Minister Will Quince cautioned NHS England trusts against succumbing to Stonewall capture, after a Daily Mail investigation uncovered the involvement of the LGBT lobby group in writing gender policies for dozens of NHS trusts in England. Several public sector organisations – including the Crown Prosecution Service, the Government Equalities Office, and the Equality and Human Rights Commission – have quit Stonewall schemes in recent years.

Source: The Times February 07, 2024 17:29 UTC