FOI/202500447130 · FOI · released
Scottish Government employee maternity leave statistics: FOI release
Information requested
1. In each year since 2019/20, how many Scottish Government employees have been granted maternity leave?
2. In relation to Q1, what was the recorded legal sex of each of these people: e.g. male, female, etc?
Response
The information you have requested is provided in the below table. As maternity leave is a statutory entitlement, it is not ‘granted’ by the Scottish Government as such. However, we have interpreted your question to mean the number of Scottish Government employees who have had a period of maternity leave in each of the years requested. Therefore, a single continuous period of maternity leave will appear in more than one year where it has spanned two different calendar years.
Year Number of Employees 2019-20 166 2020-21 187 2021-22 216 2022-23 287 2023-24 326 2024-25 223
2. All employees that have taken maternity leave, in each year since 2019/20, have a recorded legal sex of female.
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