Street Trees Consultation
About you
The following optional questions will help the Council to improve its services and be fair to everyone who lives in the borough. The information you provide will be used for statistical and research purposes only and will be stored securely. If there are any questions you do not wish to answer, please move on to the next question.
Why do we ask the 'About you' questions?
The Council asks Equality Monitoring questions at the end of all of our public consultations. It might not seem obvious why they’re relevant to each individual consultation, but we need to be sure that we’re being fair, and considering the impacts of any possible changes on any groups with protected characteristics. The Council is required to do this under Equalities legislation.
The questions help us to:
- identify residents’ needs and whether the services we provide are right for them
- be better positioned to know whether we are providing fair and equal access to all groups of people who need our services
- identify how we can improve services to make them more accessible and inclusive
- understand who is or is not responding to our consultations
The questions are optional – if respondents don’t feel comfortable providing this information they are under no obligation to do so. All monitoring data is classed as personal data and is treated as confidential, in line with Data Protection requirements.
There is a helpful guide by Stonewall on this issue called ‘What’s it got to do with you?’ which you can read by clicking here.