People employed within the Civil Service for the last ten years: FOI release

Information requested

How many people have been employed within the Civil Service for the last ten years. Please could you provide this as a total number for each financial year beginning in 2013-14 to present. Could you also provide the total cost each year for the salaries of that group of employees.

Response

Clarification was sought as to what was meant by employed by the civil service. You asked for information for Scottish Government and Core DGs.

You also asked for Social Security Scotland as well as Constitution and External Affairs providing separate information pertaining to these two organisations.

I attach the information for Core Scottish Government and Social Security Scotland. Constitution and External Affairs is a directorate within SG Core and so is included in the SG Core figures.

Table 1. Number of Civil Servants with the sum of their yearly salary at the snapshot date.

Organisation	Financial Year End	Headcount	Full Time Employees	Sum of FTE Salary
Scottish Government Core Directorates	31/03/2014	5294	5073.8	£172,535,248
	31/03/2015	5382	5149.3	£178,723,461
	31/03/2016	5385	5151.8	£184,698,395
	31/03/2017	5458	5214.4	£193,020,040
	31/03/2018	5911	5647.8	£214,056,493
	31/03/2019	6689	6402.4	£249,356,751
	31/03/2020	7368	7048.7	£285,339,276
	31/03/2021	7816	7487.9	£318,628,714
	31/03/2022	8846	8496.3	£370,140,898
	30/09/2022	9150	8786.8	£407,234,272
Social Security Scotland	31/03/2019	363	351.4	£9,764,004
	31/03/2020	666	646.8	£19,019,452
	31/03/2021	1136	1101.7	£34,648,068
	31/03/2022	2445	2375.9	£72,533,952
	30/09/2022	3803	3663.6	£113,976,809
Grand Total				£2,823,675,832

About FOI

The Scottish Government is committed to publishing all information released in response to Freedom of Information requests. View all FOI responses at http://www.gov.scot/foi-responses.