FOI/202400425170 · FOI · unclear
Scottish Government staff numbers by grade: FOI release
Information requested
The number of staff by grade including senior civil servants in Scottish Government main for each of the past 7 years.
Response
The number of staff by grade in the core Scottish Government directorates is provided below. The data has been extracted from Scottish Government's 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 31 March of each year from 2018 to 2024.
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 Therefore there is a possibility that there may be out of date data errors presented, as the “snapshot” may be taken at a point before records are updated or corrected.
The data presented is the working grade of staff, meaning staff on temporary promotion or in receipt of a Temporary Responsibility Supplement (TRS) are shown at the grade they were working at on the snapshot date.
Headcount of SG Core workforce by working grade, March 2018 to March 2024 Mar-18 Mar-19 Mar-20 Mar-21 Mar-22 Mar-23 Mar-24 Grade A3 497 480 476 376 397 341 289 A4 350 399 395 397 432 421 388 B1 916 1013 1083 1084 1165 1155 1122 B2 1071 1308 1439 1544 1757 1843 1743 B3 1190 1382 1582 1705 2069 2196 2313 BFS 57 55 67 53 49 50 57 C1 967 1130 1296 1442 1634 1773 1873 C2 419 489 550 668 775 822 866 C3 108 101 137 139 145 132 126 SCS1 - Deputy Director 123 131 143 191 202 224 220 SCS2 - Director 35 40 42 56 57 56 59 SCS3 - Director General 6 6 5 6 7 7 8 SCS4 - Permanent Secretary 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 NA* 171 154 152 154 155 154 157 All 5911 6689 7368 7816 8846 9175 9222
*NA grades are primarily seafaring staff in Marine Directorate
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