Public sector employment in Scotland: statistics for third quarter 2019

4. Reserved Public Sector Employment in Scotland; Headcount

(see Table 4)

The number of people employed in the reserved public sector in September 2019 was 57,000, 1,820 (3.3%) higher than in September 2018.

The reserved public sector employment includes:

• Reserved Civil Service (see section 5);
• Armed Forces;
• Other Public Sector (which covers Public Sector Financial Institutions, Non-Departmental Bodies and Other Bodies).

Chart 5 shows the size of each group in the reserved public sector as at September 2019.

Chart 5: Breakdown of Reserved Public Sector Employment by Sector as at September 2019, Headcount

Source: Public Sector Employment in Scotland, Quarter 3 2019
Note: Totals may not equal the sum of the individual parts due to rounding.

The increase in the overall headcount in the reserved public sector was due to:

• Employment levels for Other Public Sector^[6] increasing by 2,250 (11.0%) from 20,500 in September 2018 to 22,800 in September 2019;

while:

• Employment levels for the Reserved Civil Service fell by 430 (1.7%) to 24,600;
• Employment levels for the Armed Forces were unchanged at 9,700.

Figure 4: Percentage Change (from September 2018 to September 2019) in the Reserved Public Sector, Headcount