FOI/202400442956 · FOI · released
Scottish Government employees granted maternity leave: 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 gender of each of these people: e.g. male, female, nonbinary etc?
Response
1. 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. While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested. This is because our HR system holds information on legal sex and not gender in relation to pay and benefits. This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.
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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
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This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested. About FOI The Scottish Government is committed to publishing all information released in response to Freedom of Information requests.
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