Education Scotland public relations spend over the past 5 years: FOI release

Information requested

• The total amount spent in the last five financial years on public relations, both in-house and externally (split if possible). 
• The total number of public relations officers or communications officers employed by your organisation over the last five years. (I am looking for the number of posts rather than the number of individuals employed to eliminate discrepancies involving staff turnover.) 

Response

Please see the tables below that will provide you with the information you have requested. 

Year	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23
Total amount of expenditure on external PR invoices	-	-	£32,712	£7,512	-

 

Year	Number of Communication Officer Posts
2018	6
2019	5
2020	5
2021	6
2022	6
2023	6

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