Public Sector Employment in Scotland Statistics for 3rd Quarter 2022

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 September 2022 was 55,700. This was 130 (0.2%) higher than in September 2021.

Chart 4 shows the size of each group in the reserved public sector as at September 2022. The reserved civil service employs the largest proportion of employees in the reserved public sector.

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

Source: Public Sector Employment in Scotland, Quarter 3 2022

The increase over the year in the overall reserved public sector headcount was due to the following changes (changes are given from September 2021 to September 2022):

• employment in Other Public Sector increased by 340 (1.7%) to 20,500
• employment in the Armed Forces increased by 330 (3.3%) to 10,500

while:

• employment in the reserved Civil Service decreased by 530 (-2.1%) to 24,800