Civil servant redeployment during the COVID-19 pandemic: FOI release
- Published
- 19 January 2021
- Directorate
- Constitution Directorate
- FOI reference
- FOI/202000126288
- Date received
- 16 December 2020
- Date responded
- 15 January 2021
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
You asked:
The number of civil servants redeployed to work in the Constitution and Cabinet Directorate during the COVID-19 pandemic from other government departments. Broken down by month from April 2020 to present.
Response
From April onwards, a total number of 4 officials joined Constitution and Cabinet Directorate from other directorates to work on Covid policy and legislation and parliamentary reporting on Covid, at different times and for varying lengths of time, to support the government’s response to Covid-19. A detailed breakdown by month is displayed below.
| Apr |
May |
Jun |
Jul |
Aug |
Sept |
Oct |
Nov |
|
| 3 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
|
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