Scottish Government employee performance review: FOI release

Information requested

For each of the last 10 financial years, please provide the following:

1. How many Scottish Government employees have had their employment terminated specifically following a performance review process?

2. How many Scottish Government employees are currently on a performance review process?

3. How many Scottish Government employees received:
a) Partly Effective Marking
b) Not Effective Marking

For the above, please also reflect these as a percentage of the total performance markings given in the relevant year.

Response

In your request you have asked for data for the past 10 financial years. As such, the data for this Freedom of Information request covers the period from 6 April 2014 to 5 April 2024.

You have asked for the number of Scottish Government employees who have had their employment terminated following a performance review process. Under the Scottish Government’s performance management policy, there were 17 cases between 6 April 2014 to 5 April 2024 where the employment contract was terminated. This figure includes staff who have not met the performance requirements during their probationary period.

You have also asked for the number of Scottish Government employees who are currently on a formal performance review process. As of 2 October 2024, there are 13 cases where staff are on a formal performance review. This figure includes staff who are currently on their probationary period. 

Lastly, you have asked for the number of Scottish Government employees who received partly effective and not effective markings. I have interpreted your request to mean for the last 10 years. Additionally, you have asked that the data is reflected as a percentage of the total performance markings given in the relevant year.

Appraisal year	Partly Effective	Not Effective	Total Performance Markings	Percentage of partly effective markings	Percentage of not effective markings
2014-2015	7	1	4312	0.16%	0.02%
2015-2016	12	2	4480	0.27%	0.04%
2016-2017	10	1	4855	0.21%	0.02%
2017-2018	13	2	4952	0.26%	0.04%
2018-2019	19	7	5477	0.35%	0.13%
2019-2020	16	5	4537	0.35%	0.11%
2020-2021	14	2	5539	0.25%	0.04%
2021-2022	30	2	7097	0.42%	0.03%
2022-2023	31	1	7557	0.41%	0.01%
2023-2024	23	2	8058	0.29%	0.02%

Table 1: Partly and not effective markings from 2014 - 2024

Table 1 shows the number of partly and not effective markings which were added to the E-HR system. The table also shows this as a percentage of the total markings added to the system for each year. Please note that the information provided above refers to staff within the core Director-General areas of the Scottish Government (see Annex A attached). Requests for information about other bodies/agencies should be sent directly to them.

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FOI - 202400430314 - Information released - Annex A

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