FOI-140126 - Definition of Woman

Freedom of Information (FOI) Request

Reference Number:

FOI-140126

Fulfilment Date:

21/01/26

Topic:

ILF Scotland’s definition of the terms ‘woman’, ‘lesbian’, ‘gay’ and bisexual, actions carried out by ILF Scotland for women, lesbian, gay and bisexual people, and ILF Scotland’s relationship with LGBT+ organisations

Request:

1. What does your organisation understands the word ‘woman’ to denote?
2. What does your organisation understands the terms: lesbian, bisexual and gay to denote?
3. What actions have you 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. What actions have you 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. Please provide 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. What was 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. Please provide 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. Please provide 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).
9. Please provide details of 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 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).
10. Please provide details of 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) 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).
11. Please provide 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.
12. What was 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?
13. Please provide 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.
14. Please provide 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).

Response:

1. ILF Scotland has no formal definition of the word woman.
2. ILF Scotland has no formal definition of the terms lesbian, bisexual and gay.
3. N/A
4. N/A
5. N/A
6. Nil
7. N/A
8. N/A
9. N/A
10. N/A
11. N/A
12. Nil
13. N/A
14. N/A