Public Sector Employment in Scotland Statistics for 4th Quarter 2012

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). The publication includes information on public sector employment in Scotland with distinctions made for employment in devolved bodies and reserved bodies (located in Scotland).


Table 2: Public sector employment by National Accounts Sector Classification; Scotland, Headcount

Not Seasonally Adjusted

Total Public Sector National Accounts Central Government Category Local Government Public Corporations Public Sector Financial Institutions
Civil Service Other Public Bodies NHS Armed Forces Further Education Colleges Total Central Government
Q4 1999 551,200 48,300 14,600 129,800 15,100 15,700 223,500 296,300 31,300
Q4 2006 599,700 52,100 19,200 150,300 12,800 16,700 251,100 320,700 27,900
Q4 2007 598,900 49,800 22,600 154,500 12,200 16,900 255,900 316,000 26,900
Q4 2008 647,000 49,800 23,400 157,400 12,000 16,900 259,500 313,600 31,300
Q4 2009 634,700 51,100 22,900 160,800 11,900 16,000 262,700 305,800 30,500 35,700
Q4 2010 615,700 48,700 22,700 158,000 12,300 16,800 258,400 295,500 28,300 33,500
Q4 2011 590,700 47,100 21,500 154,400 11,600 15,000 249,700 282,800 26,700 31,400
Q4 2012 580,400 45,400 21,400 155,800 10,900 14,200 247,700 277,700 26,200 28,700
Change on year to:
Q4 2012 -10,300 -1,700 -100 1,400 -700 -800 -2,000 -5,100 -500 -2,700
% change on year:
Q4 2012 -1.7% -3.6% -0.6% 0.9% -6.4% -5.0% -0.8% -1.8% -1.9% -8.7%

Notes:
1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred; percentages are based on unrounded figures.

2. Public sector financial institutions include Northern Rock (classified to the public sector from Q4 2007), Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc, HMOS/Lloyds Banking Group plc (both classified to the public sector from Q4 2008) Lloyds TSB Commercial Banking. Those organisation classified as Public Sector Financial Institutions and SIC 64.

3. Local Government category revised to include Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) following a review by the National Accounts Classifications Team at ONS.

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 actual 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).
In Q2 2012 1,491 & 1062.1 WTE headcount staff transferred from Highland Council to NHS Highland

7. 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.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Labour-Market/PublicSectorEmployment

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