FOI/202100189133 · FOI · not held
Total spend on employing agency staff across the Scottish Government: FOI release
Information requested
Can you please provide the number of Agency Staff you have employed straight across all Departments within the Scottish Government and how much this costs, please break this down by each Department for the last 5 years.
Response
Please see below the spend for the core SG for the last 5 financial years. For 2020/21 this is not yet complete as we have not yet received and validated all of the final quarter management information. Please note this spend is for the various iterations of the Temporary & Interim Staff Services Frameworks only it doesn’t contain any spend for Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) or staff contracted through any other method as we have no visibility of that. 2016/17 - £15,983,178.54 2017/18 - £13,394,538.92 2018/19 - £21,384,623.73 2019/20 - £29,452,581.53 2020/21 - £28,339,702.46
Year Quarter to end: Interim managers Temporary agency workers Total head count of Agency workers 2017 Mar 77 151 228 Jun 66 140 206 Sep 61 141 202 Dec 61 167 228 2018 Mar 72 195 267 Jun 77 218 295 Sep 74 214 288 Dec 79 214 293 2019 Mar 79 198 277 Jun 69 195 264 Sep 67 200 267 Dec 62 180 242 2020 Mar 73 173 246 Jun 74 163 237 Sep 98 199 297 Dec 98 251 349
These figures are essentially lifted from our quarterly “workforce information” official statistics publication which is assessible using the link provided. Scottish Government workforce information - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) Unfortunately we are unable to provide a breakdown by each department as we do not hold a central record of this. About FOI The Scottish Government is committed to publishing all information released in response to Freedom of Information requests. View all FOI responses at http://www.gov.scot/foi-responses.
Contact Please quote the FOI reference Central Enquiry Unit Email: ceu@gov.scot Phone: 0300 244 4000 The Scottish Government St Andrews House Regent Road Edinburgh EH1 3DG
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