FOI - EDI

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Ref No.: 01 26
Request Type: FOI
Date Received: 14/01/26
Date Responded: 16/01/26
Category:  EDI

Request

Part 1

Under the Freedom of Information Act (Scotland) Act 2002, I would like to request the following information held by you:

  1. 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)1 in the calendar years 2015 to 2019? (please break that down by each calendar year ideally or fiscal year, and only if achievable within cost limit, the action taken and the amount spent on each action).
  2. Actions you have carried out for (each and separately) lesbian2, gay and bisexual people (each term as defined by the supreme court ruling in the case of For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers) broken down in the calendar years 2015 to 2019? (please break that down by each year, for these years) and only if achievable within cost limit, the action and the amount spent on each action.
  3. Copies of any funding agreements, or contracts, or other documents held by your organisation in this time period (2015-2019) with any LGBT organisation or organisation that has LGBT+ issues as its main focus, specifying the purpose of the funding.
  4. The total amount of spend in this time period (2015-2019) 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.
  5. A breakdown, where held, of this spend for each year from 2015/2016 to 2018/2019 that you have on file. Ideally, please provide this broken down by calendar year. Please provide by fiscal year if you do not have it in calendar format.
  6. A breakdown, where held, of this funding by recipient organisation, including their name, amount provided per year and 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).

To emphasise: in each case for each of the above please only provide that which is achievable within the cost limit.

Please note: if your organisation does not categorise specifically for ‘LGBT’, then please include any funding to charities and third sector bodies where they have supporting LGBT people as a prime or major objective or where the spend might reasonably fall into this description from the above questions.

Examples of such organisations are, but are not limited to:

  • LGBT Youth Scotland
  • Equality Network
  • Scottish Trans (Scottish Trans Alliance)
  • Stonewall Scotland
  • Any local LGBT groups and projects
Part 2
  1. What your organisation understands the word ‘woman’1 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) lesbian2, 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)

To emphasise: in each case for each of the above please only provide that which is achievable within the cost limit.

Please note: if your organisation does not categorise specifically for ‘LGBT’, then please include any funding to charities and third sector bodies where they have supporting LGBT people as a prime or major objective or where the spend might reasonably fall into this description from the above questions.

Examples of such organisations are, but are not limited to:

  • LGBT Youth Scotland
  • Equality Network
  • Scottish Trans (Scottish Trans Alliance)
  • Stonewall Scotland
  • Any local LGBT groups and projects

Response

Many thanks for your request for information, which was received by us on 14 January 2026.

The Water Industry Commission does not hold information on the questions raised within your request. Section 17 of FOISA states that where public authorities receive requests for information that they do not hold, they must issue a notice advising that they do not hold the requested information.

Although not requested, we do publish an EDI report which you might find useful. These reports are available here.

If you are unhappy with this response to your request, you may ask us to carry out a review by contacting us.  Your request for review should explain why you are dissatisfied and should be made within 40 working days of receipt of this response.  The review will be undertaken by staff not involved in the original process and we will reply within 20 working days of receipt.  

If you are not satisfied with the outcome of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner (SIC) and thereafter to the Court of Session on a point of law only.  The SIC can be contacted using the details below:

Scottish Information Commissioner
Kinburn Castle, Doubledykes Road
St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9DS
Telephone: 01334 464610
Web: www.foi.scot 

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