Various questions about the terms 'woman', 'lesbian', 'bisexual', 'gay' in relation to FSS

Your request was about the following information:

(1) What your organisation understands the word ‘woman’ to denote. 

(2) What your organisation understands the terms: lesbian, bisexual and gay to denote? 

(3) Actions that you have carried out for women (as defined by the Supreme Court ruling in the case of For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers) in the last 5 years. Please break that down the amount spent by each calendar year, please provide by fiscal year if you do not have it in calendar format please include data for 2026. 

(4) Actions you have carried out for (each and separately) lesbian, gay and bisexual people (each term as defined by the supreme court ruling in the case of For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers) in the last 5 years? (please break that down by year, for the last 5 years and this calendar year) and only if achievable within cost limit, the action taken and the amount spent on each action. 

(5) Copies of any funding agreements, or contracts, or other documents held by your organisation in the last 5 years with any LGBT organisation or organisation that has LGBT+ issues as its main focus, specifying the purpose of the funding. 

(6) The total amount of spend in the last 5 years (from 2020 up to the present day) for grants, funding, donations, contracts, or any other financial support, membership fees or subscriptions to LGBT diversity schemes or programmes provided by your authority to organisations that work with lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgender, ace, pan or intersex people or any other related or associated equality issues. 

(7) A breakdown, where held, of this spend for each year from 2020/2025 to 2025/2026. Ideally, please provide by calendar year. Please provide by fiscal year if you do not have it in calendar format. 

(8) A breakdown, where held, of this funding by recipient organisation, including their name, amount provided for each year from 2020/2025 to 2025/6 and only if achievable within cost limit a brief description of what it was for (including, but not limited to: mental health support, equality training and education, awareness raising initiatives, youth projects, sport or health services).

We have received confirmation from the Scottish Government FOI Unit that your two FOI requests will be closed, consistent with the approach taken across all other agencies that received the same submissions. This decision has been made on the basis that the matters raised are now being managed centrally by the Equalities Division within SG Core. Any further handling or updates will therefore be undertaken through that centralised process.