Numbers of staff in Social Security Scotland, salaries and secondments: FOI release
- Published
- 22 March 2019
- Directorate
- Social Security Directorate
- Topic
- Public sector
- FOI reference
- FOI/19/00617
- Date received
- 27 February 2019
- Date responded
- 21 March 2019
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
How many Scottish Government staff are employed working on social security issues?
What is the combined cost of these staff members' salaries.
How many Scottish Government staff are employed in the Scottish Government's Social Security Directorate?
How many of these staff have been seconded to Social Security Scotland?
Response
All of the information you requested is set out below;
The number of directly employed Scottish Government Staff working on social security issues and salary costs are set out in the table below.
|
|
Headcount |
FTE Salary |
| Social Security Scotland |
317 |
£ 8,807,244 |
| Social Security Directorate |
304 |
£11,637,252 |
| Total |
621 |
£20,444,496 |
Social Security Scotland staff are Scottish Government employees. There are no Social Security Directorate or other Scottish Government employees seconded to Social Security Scotland.
For any further queries you may have regarding Scottish Government workforce statistics, please see our quarterly publication available at www.gov.scot/publications/workforce-information/
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Contact
Please quote the FOI reference
Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrews House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG
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