FOI/202600516209 · FOI · released
Details and cost of office equipment provided to staff working from home: FOI release
Information requested
Please provide a table of all the office equipment - for use at home - you've provided for staff in every financial year since 2020-21, including 2025-26, with its corresponding cost.
Please breakdown this annual amount by category of equipment e.g. IT, chairs, desks.
Response
I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested.
Some of the information you have requested is available in previous FOIs Amount spent on working from home equipment: FOI release - gov.scot Home working equipment spend: FOI release - gov.scot
A standard operator chair and a folding desk can be requested from a central mailbox. Until 2025, this also provided wired keyboards, wired mice and a laptop stand, however, these were moved to being purchase by teams in 2025.
Computer monitors are purchased by teams if required.
Item Breakdown Financial Year Operator Chairs Wired Keyboards Wired Mice Laptop Stands Folding Desks 2023–24 79 45 40 32 12 2024–25 286 134 126 100 62 2025–26 230 3 3 5 31
Approximate value per item Operator Chairs Wired Keyboard Wired Mouse Laptop Stands Folding Desks £0.00 £16.15 £9.00 £18.30 £160.00
*Operator chairs are refurbished from existing stock which was purchased more than five years ago so have been allocated nil value as they are past depreciation value.
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested. The reasons why we don't have the information are explained below.
The FOIs outlined above provide general information on costs going back to 2020. However, the detailed records for 2020-23 have been deleted in line with data retention.
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