Public Sector Employment in Scotland Statistics for 1st Quarter 2023

4. Reserved Public Sector Employment in Scotland; Headcount

(see Table 4)

The reserved public sector employment includes:

• Reserved Civil Service
• Armed Forces
• Other Public Sector (which covers Public Sector Financial Institutions, Non-Departmental Bodies and Other Bodies)

The number of people employed in the reserved public sector in March 2023 was 56,400. This was 330 (0.6%) higher than in March 2022.

Chart 4 shows the size of each group in the reserved public sector as at March 2023. The reserved civil service employs the largest proportion of people in the reserved public sector.

Source: Public Sector Employment in Scotland, Quarter 1 2023.

Note: Totals may not equal the sum of the individual parts due to rounding.

The increase over the year in the overall reserved public sector headcount was due to the following changes (changes are given from March 2022 to March 2023):

• employment in Other Public Sector increased by 970 (4.8%) to 21,300

while:

• employment in Reserved Civil Service decreased by 640 (-2.5%) to 24,700

Armed Forces data is only available once per year, so changes in Armed Forces cannot be given for this quarter.