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Publication - Statistics

Public Sector Employment in Scotland - Statistics for 1st Quarter 2015

Published
17 June 2015
ISBN
9781785444784

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). This is a snapshot of employment as at March 2015. The publication includes information on public sector employment in Scotland with distinctions made for employment in devolved bodies and reserved bodies (located in Scotland).

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Table 8: Total devolved public sector employment by sector; Scotland, Full-time equivalent

Not Seasonally Adjusted

Total Devolved Public Sector NHS6 Civil Service Police and Fire Services2 Further Education Colleges3,5 Other Public Bodies3 Local Government2,4,7 Public Corporations
Q1 1999 384,100 106,000 14,100 - 11,500 7,800 235,400 9,200
Q1 2009 441,500 134,600 16,400 - 12,300 14,500 257,400 6,300
Q1 2010 436,800 136,700 16,700 - 11,700 14,500 250,900 6,200
Q1 2011 424,600 133,300 16,300 - 12,100 13,900 243,000 6,000
Q1 2012 413,000 131,200 15,800 - 11,100 13,200 235,600 6,000
Q1 2013 412,500 133,200 15,800 - 10,600 13,800 232,600 6,500
Q1 2014 412,300 135,600 16,100 27,800 10,400 12,500 202,700 7,100
Q1 2015 413,400 137,600 16,500 27,700 10,500 12,600 201,900 6,600
Change on year to:
Q1 2015 1,100 2,000 400 -100 100 100 -800 -600
% change on year:
Q1 2015 0.3% 1.5% 2.7% 1.1% 1.1% 1.1% -0.4% -8.2%

Notes:

1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred; percentages are based on unrounded figures. "-" denotes blank entries.

2. Police and Fire Reform: From Q2 2013 Police and Fire Services have been reclassified as central government rather than local government (as their predecessors were). All police staff are employed by the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) whether deployed with the SPA or with the Police Service of Scotland. Although the SPA is an 'Other Public Body' to avoid duplication and ensure comprehensive numbers are reported for the Police and Fire category, from Q2 2013 all police staff have been included within the Police and Fire category (and not in the Other Public Bodies category).

3. In October 2012 the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) merged with 3 colleges to form Scotland's Rural College. This new organisation is classified as a public body as the SAC was. This has resulted in staffing levels moving from the Further Education to Other Public Bodies categories to reflect the merger of these organisations. Although the SPA is an 'Other Public Body' to avoid duplication and ensure comprehensive numbers are reported for the Police and Fire category, from Q2 2013 all police staff have been included within the Police and Fire category (and not in the Other Public Bodies category).

4. A number of local government staff have transferred to arms length organisations which are part of the private sector under National Accounts definitions. For example, staff transferred from Glasgow City Council to Cordia Limited Liability Partnership from 1 April 2009 thus explaining the decrease in local government employment between 2008 and 2009.

5. Information for further education colleges in Scotland is based on collected information from Q4 2010. The method used to create the back series is detailed in the background notes of this publication.

6. From Q4 2011, NHS has responsibility for employing Healthcare staff within prisons. Previously, these people were employed directly by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS). Also, In Q2 2012 1,491 & 1062.1 FTE headcount staff transferred from Highland Council to NHS Highland as a result of the move to integrated health and social care services.

7. Scottish Borders Council headcount and FTE figures do not include Casual/Relief employees who were paid in the reference period. This means that these figures underestimate the true headcount and FTE for Scottish Borders Council. This will be resolved for the next PSE publication upon receipt of revised figures from Scottish Borders Council.

8. Detailed tables showing a full time series of data - all quarters back to Q1 1999 - are available to download from the Public Sector Employment Websection: http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Labour-Market/PublicSectorEmployment

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