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Civil servant redeployment to support COVID-19 response: FOI release

Published: 17 December 2020
Directorate: Constitution Directorate
Topic: Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Scotland, Public sector
FOI reference: FOI/202000105326
Date received: 29 October 2020
Date responded: 24 November 2020

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

Information requested

The number of civil servants redeployed from the Constitution and Cabinet Directorate during the COVID-19 pandemic to work in other government departments. Broken down by month from April 2020 to present.

Response

From April onwards, a total number of 27 officials from Constitution and Cabinet Directorate were redeployed, at different times and for varying lengths of time, to support the government’s response to Covid-19 in other directorates. A detailed breakdown by month is displayed below.

Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct
25	25	23	20	18	17	15

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Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000

The Scottish Government
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Regent Road
Edinburgh
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