National Statistics Publication - Public Sector Employment in Scotland - Q3 2013
The statistics in this release are based on administrative records and surveys of individual public sector bodies carried out by the Scottish Government and the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The publication includes information on public sector employment in Scotland with distinctions made for employment in devolved bodies and reserved bodies (located in Scotland).
2. Public sector employment by devolved and reserved responsibility; headcount (Table 3)
The devolved public sector covers those bodies which are the responsibility of the Scottish Government or Scottish Parliament. Whereas the reserved public sector in Scotland covers those bodies for which the UK Government has ministerial responsibility.
Figure 2: Make-up of the Scottish public sector, Q3 2013, headcount[4][5][6]
Changes in the devolved and reserved public sector are explored in more detail in sections 3 and 4 respectively.
Chart 3 below shows how the decrease of 1,200 seen for the overall public sector in Scotland is split between the devolved and reserved public sector. Chart 3 also shows the impact removing the public sector financial institutions from the series has on this change over the year.
Chart 3: Annual change (from Q3 2012 to Q3 2013) in public sector employment by devolved and reserved responsibility, headcount
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