Unique Scottish Government employees since 2015: FOI release
- Published
- 29 January 2025
- Directorate
- People Directorate
- Topic
- Public sector, Work and skills
- FOI reference
- FOI/202400445573
- Date received
- 18 December 2024
- Date responded
- 20 January 2025
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
The total number of unique* employees the Scottish Government has had since 2015, cumulatively for each year from 2015 to present.
*By ‘unique’ - you specified a person who is not another person, regardless of job or name history.
Response
The answer to your question is provided in the table below. The Information has been collated from the quarterly snapshots of human resources management information which are used to produce the Scottish Government Workforce Information Statistics available here Scottish Government workforce information - gov.scot (www.gov.scot).
|
Unique Scottish Government employees since 01 January 2015 |
|
|
2015 |
5876 |
|
2015 to 2016 |
6394 |
|
2015 to 2017 |
7162 |
|
2015 to 2018 |
8346 |
|
2015 to 2019 |
9497 |
|
2015 to 2020 |
10305 |
|
2015 to 2021 |
11965 |
|
2015 to 2022 |
13221 |
|
2015 to 2023 |
13810 |
|
2015 to End September 2024 |
14392 |
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Contact
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Central Correspondence Unit
Email: contactus@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG
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