Civil servants who worked on Devolution since Brexit Referendum: FOI release

Information requested

1. The total number of civil servants who worked on the Devolution since the Brexit Referendum document that was published on 14 June 2023: Devolution since the Brexit Referendum - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
2. The pay grades of these staff members.
3. The total cost to create and publish this document.

Response

1.    The work to prepare the Devolution was coordinated by one principal editor as part of their normal duties, with contributions from a range of officials across the Government, also as part of their normal duties.

The Scottish Government does not have a centrally held record of the number of staff involved with this work because in line with usual practice, details of individual tasks carried out by civil servants, including the number of hours spent on them, are not routinely recorded as there is no business need to do that.

This is a formal notice under S.17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested.

2.    The pay grade of the principal editor is C2.

As the Scottish Government does not have a centrally held record of the staff involved in compiling this document for the reasons detailed above, we do not have a record of the pay grades of these staff. This is a formal notice under S.17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested.

3.    The document was published directly on to the Scottish Government website (see Devolution since the Brexit Referendum - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)) as part of a standard central publishing function. It is not possible to provide information on the costs incurred to create and publish the document because in line with usual practice, details of costs to create and publish individual documents in-house published on the website are not routinely recorded as there is no business need to do so. This is a formal notice under S.17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested.

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