Religious and non-religious blogs on ONS intranet

FOI reference: FOI-2025-2811

You asked

The Equality Act 2010 has multiple protected characteristics including religion and belief, including non-belief in religion.

This question asks how ONS has protected the non-relgious belief characteristic vis-a-vis religion.

In particular on the internal ONS 'Reggie' website since 1/1/2020:

1. How many pro-religious blogs have been published, e.g. on Easter, Christmas, Ramadan, Eid etc?

2. How many non-religious blogs have been published, e.g. representing the views of atheists and agnostics.

3. How many pro-religious comments on the above 1 & 2 blogs have been published.

4. How many non-religious comments on the above 1 & 2 blogs have been published.

5. How many pro-religious comments on the above 1 & 2 blogs have been NOT been published due to moderation.

6. How many non-religious comments on the above 1 & 2 blogs have been NOT been published due to moderation.

We said

Thank you for your request.

The associated download provides a spreadsheet containing the requested information for questions 1 and 2 by month. Months in which no blogs were published relevant to your query have been excluded. This also provides the number of approved and rejected comments for each post and the total number of blogs published in each month for comparison.

The information requested for Qs 3 to 6 is not held in a recorded form. We do not believe it is possible to create this information in order to respond to this request as anyjudgement in relation to whether a comment is pro-religious or non-religious would involve a subjective opinion.