FOI/202400426928 · FOI · unclear
Number of civil servants employed by the Scottish Government: FOI release
Information requested
Details of how many civil servants have been employed by the Scottish Government on this date in each of the last five years, with a breakdown of which department they worked in.
Response
The data has been extracted from Scottish governments HR systems and is in line with the latest published official workforce statistics available here Scottish Government workforce information - gov.scot (www.gov.scot). The data is based on the position as at 30 June of each year from 2020 to 2024.
The table below provides a breakdown of these statistics and shows the full time equivalent number of directly employed Scottish Government staff by Directorate General area.
The HR system is an administrative database. As such, it is continually updated when workers join and leave the Scottish Government and personal details change. As with any large scale administration system, it may be subject to errors with data entry and processing, and short delays in processing changes to the data. Therefore there is a possibility that there may be out of date data errors presented, as the “snapshot” may be taken at a point before records are updated or corrected. We are currently in the process of replacing our HR administrative systems. This process of replacing our systems has limited the number of organisational changes made in the HR system which may also have an impact on the quality of data presented.
FTE, Core Scottish Government Directly Employed Staff by DG, June 2020 to June 2024 DG Jun-20 Jun-21 Jun-22 Jun-23 Jun-24 DG Constitution and External Affairs 529 369 . . . DG Communities . 898 995 1,114 1,107 DG Corporate . 1,679 1,921 2,055 2,233 DG Education, Communities and Justice 1,313 . . . . DG Economy 2,597 2,706 708 550 562 DG Education and Justice . 768 902 926 949 DG Health and Social Care 693 1,112 1,330 1,256 1,219 DG Net Zero . . 2,195 2,249 2,272 DG Organisational Development and Operations 1,853 . . . . DG Scottish Exchequer 134 141 132 148 153 DG Strategy and External Affairs . . 484 442 417 All 7,119 7,674 8,666 8,739 8,911
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