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Publication - Statistics

Public Sector Employment in Scotland - Statistics for the 2nd Quarter of 2014

Published
17 September 2014
ISBN
9781784127978

The statistics in this release are based on administrative records and surveys of individual public sector bodies carried out by the Scottish Government and the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This is a snapshot of employment as at June 2014. The publication includes information on public sector employment in Scotland with distinctions made for employment in devolved bodies and reserved bodies (located in Scotland).

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Table 2: Public sector employment by National Accounts Sector Classification; Scotland, Headcount

Not Seasonally Adjusted

Total Public Sector Total Central Government National Accounts Central Government Categories Local Government4,6 Public Corporations2 Public Sector Financial Institutions2 Public Corporations & Public Sector Financial Institutions2,3
NHS8 Civil Service Police and Fire4 Further Education Colleges5,7 Armed Forces Other Public Bodies5
Q2 1999 545,600 222,400 129,100 48,500 - 15,700 14,900 14,200 293,500 29,700 - 29,700
Q2 2008 596,900 257,700 155,200 49,600 - 16,900 12,100 23,900 313,700 25,500 - 25,500
Q2 2009 636,300 262,800 159,300 51,100 - 16,900 12,000 23,600 306,300 28,600 38,600 67,200
Q2 2010 627,000 261,300 160,100 50,100 - 16,000 12,200 22,900 301,900 28,500 35,300 63,900
Q2 2011 601,800 253,900 155,300 48,700 - 15,900 11,900 22,000 289,000 26,500 32,500 59,000
Q2 2012 584,500 247,900 154,900 45,900 - 14,500 11,000 21,600 282,000 24,800 29,800 54,600
Q2 2013 580,100 276,800 156,600 45,000 30,200 13,400 11,100 20,500 248,100 24,300 31,000 55,300
Q2 2014 544,100 275,600 159,100 43,500 28,600 13,500 10,400 20,600 247,000 * * 21,500
Change on year to:
Q2 2014 -36,100 -1,200 2,400 -1,500 -1,500 100 -700 100 -1,100 n/a n/a -33,800
% change on year:
Q2 2014 -6.2% -0.4% 1.6% -3.3% -5.1% 0.6% -6.6% 0.5% -0.4% n/a n/a -61.2%

Notes:

1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred. "-" denotes blank entries and "*" denotes entries that have been suppressed for disclosure reasons.

2. Due to the recent reclassification of Lloyds Banking Group plc from public sector financial institutions to the private sector, a new category has been created combining public corporations with public sector financial institutions to ensure employment figures are not disclosed. Both categories have been merged to produce a backseries prior to the reclassification to allow for calculation of year on year changes.

3. Employment over the year in public corporations & public sector financial institutions has been largely affected by the reclassification of Lloyds Banking Group plc. (and subsidiaries), as well as Royal Mail plc. and Direct Line Group plc.

4. Police and Fire Reform: Some of the change on year estimates will be affected by reclassification of organisations as a result of reforms to the police and fire services in Scotland. From Q2 2013 Police and Fire services have been reclassified as central government rather than local government. This reclassification has had an impact on the staffing numbers in both these categories. Also, from Q2 2013 staffing levels for the Scottish Police Authority (previously Scottish Police Services Authoriy) are included within the Police and Fire Services category in the table above (previously included in other public bodies).

5. In October 2012 the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) merged with 3 colleges to form Scotland's Rural College. This new organisation is classified as a public body as the SAC was. This has resulted in staffing levels moving from the Further Education to Other Public Bodies categories to reflect the merger of these organisations.

6. A number of local government staff have transferred to arms length organisations which are part of the private sector under National Accounts definitions. For example, staff transferrred from Glasgow City Council to Cordia Limited Liability Partnership from 1 April 2009 thus explaining the decrease in local government employment between 2008 and 2009.

7. Information for further education colleges in Scotland is based on actual information from Q4 2010. The method used to create the back series is detailed in the background notes of this publication.

8. From Q4 2011, NHS has responsibility for employing Healthcare staff within prisons. Previously, these people were employed directly by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS). Also in Q2 2011 1,491 & 1,062 WTE headcount staff transferred from Highland Council to NHS Highland as a result of the move to integrated health and social care services.

9. Detailed tables showing a full time series of data - all quarters back to Q1 1999 - are available to download from the Public Sector Employment Websection: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Labour-Market/PublicSectorEmployment

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