Chat GPT Business spend: FOI release
- Published
- 11 February 2026
- Directorate
- Digital Directorate
- FOI reference
- FOI/202500491473
- Date received
- 30 October 2025
- Date responded
- 27 November 2025
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
You asked, “…in the past three years, how much money the Scottish Government has spent on Chat GPT Business? And if there has been a cost, in which departments has this been spent? Could the information be broken down by year.”
Response
The answer to your question is that the Scottish Government does not currently subscribe to or purchase ChatGPT Business, so there has been no spend on this product.
You may wish to visit recent FOI reference 202500472238, which provides details of the generative AI services which we currently do subscribe to. Subscriptions to paid Artificial Intelligence (AI) services: FOI release - gov.scot
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Contact
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Central Correspondence Unit
Email: contactus@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG