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Scottish Government employees with a declared disability: FOI release

Published
2025-07-16
Received
2025-04-07
Responded
2025-04-24
Directorate
People Directorate
Topic
Equality and rights, Public sector
Exemptions
6(1), 17(1)

Information requested

How many current employees within the Scottish Government have declared a disability? What proportion of current Scottish Government employees have declared a disability in comparison to the whole workforce? Could you provide a breakdown in which departments of the Scottish Government employees noted in (1) are employed within? If possible, could you also provide a breakdown in terms of employees noted in (1)’s sex, gender, and age

Response

Under 25(1) of Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA) (regulation 6(1)(b) of the EIRs), This is information is publicly available in the latest release of the Scottish Government workforce information Official Statistics publication. Under 25(1) of Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA) (regulation 6(1)(b) of the EIRs), This is information is publicly available in the latest release of the Scottish Government workforce information Official Statistics publication. Under 25(1) of Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA) (regulation 6(1)(b) of the EIRs), This is information is publicly available in the latest release of the Diversity and Inclusion statistics of the Scottish Government workforce Official Statistics publication. While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, under section 17(1) of Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA) we do not hold data on the gender of staff.

We have supplied the requested data on staff numbers, categorised by disability status, age and sex:

Age/Sex 1. Disabled 2. Not disabled 3. Prefer not to say 4. Unknown 16-29 150 674 41 429 30-39 374 1540 98 657 40-49 357 1581 100 563 50-54 171 629 44 274 55-59 131 609 47 206 60+ 81 406 18 169 Female 824 3066 212 1177 Male 440 2373 136 1121

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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, under section 17(1) of Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA) we do not hold data on the gender of staff.

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