Request
Your request was about the following information:
I write under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 to request the following information:
Q1. The number of contracts you have awarded to supported businesses in each of the last five financial years (i.e.. 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24).
Q2. The cumulative value of your spend on these contracts in each of these years.
Q3. For each of these years, the number of contracts awarded to supported businesses that you have utilised by any procurement body of which you are member.
Q4. The cumulative value of spend by you on those contracts awarded by any procurement body of which you are a member in each of these years
Response
Our aim is to provide information whenever possible. However, in this instance Food Standards Scotland (FSS) provides a nil response to each of the questions in the request. We don’t have any contracts with supported businesses and have not had any in place during each of the last five financial years.