FOI/202500468580 · FOI · partially withheld
Costs for Special Advisers and Press Officers: FOI release
Information requested
Could you supply the total spend on Scottish Government Special advisers and press officers for the 24/25 financial year, as well as the same totals for the three previous years, and a breakdown per year?
Response
Special Advisers
The table below contains the costs for Special Advisers between April 2021 and March 2025, broken down by financial year.
Year Total Cost 2021-22 £1,448,553 2022-23 £1,909,843 2023-24 £2,135,775 2024-25 £1,944,887
Total cost includes employer costs for pension and National Insurance contributions.
Press Officers
Costs for press officers is pro-actively published and available from 2006 to 2023-24 on Communications staff (press officers): costs - gov.scot
Costs for the financial year 2024-25 are not available until the the financial year has ended. Collation of this information is underway and figures will be published on the Scottish Government website within the next 12 weeks.
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some of the information you have requested because an exemption under section s.27(1) Information Intended for Future publication FOISA applies to that information. The reasons why that exemption applies is because we will be publishing the 2024-25 press officer costs on gov.scot within the next 12 weeks.
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Contact Please quote the FOI reference Central Correspondence Unit Email: contactus@gov.scot Phone: 0300 244 4000 The Scottish Government St Andrew's House Regent Road Edinburgh EH1 3DG
Detected exemption language
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some of the information you have requested because an exemption under section s.27(1) Information Intended for Future publication FOISA applies to that information. The reasons why that exemption applies is because we will be publishing the 2024-25 press officer costs on gov.scot within the next 12 weeks.
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