Recipients of Sick Pay at Pension Rate (SPPR) payments: FOI release
- Published
- 25 February 2021
- Directorate
- People Directorate
- Topic
- Money and tax, Public sector
- FOI reference
- FOI/202000129938
- Date received
- 23 December 2020
- Date responded
- 21 January 2021
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
Information requested
1. How many Scottish Government employees have been paid any sick pay at Pension Rate (SPPR) from 2015 to December 2020?
2. How many days has SPPR been paid in total each calendar year?
3. How many individuals have received SPPR in excess of 28 days per award period per calendar year? What percentage are they of the total number of individuals receiving SPPR?
4. Of those, how many individuals have received SPPR in excess of 42 days per award period per calendar year? What percentage are they of the total number of individuals receiving SPPR?
5. And of those, how many individuals have received SPPR in excess of 120 days per award period per calendar year? What percentage are they of the total number of individuals receiving SPPR?
6. What is the longest total number of days any individual has received SPPR for in each year?
Response
I have provided all of the information you requested below:
1. A total of 26 Scottish Government (SG) employees received 34 periods of SPPR payments in the 5 year period. Please note that some employees had multiple spells of SPPR in the same year or across multiple years.
| Calendar year |
Number of SG employees that were paid SPPR within that year |
| 2015 |
3 |
| 2016 |
8 |
| 2017 |
9 |
| 2018 |
4 |
| 2019 |
1 |
| 2020 |
1 |
2. The number of days of SPPR paid in each calendar year is as follows:
| Calendar year |
Total number of days of SPPR paid in that year |
| 2015 |
22 days |
| 2016 |
147 days |
| 2017 |
526 days |
| 2018 |
93 days |
| 2019 |
37 days |
| 2020 |
39 days |
3. The number of SG employees that have received SPPR in excess of 28 days per award period per calendar year is as follows:
|
Calendar year |
Number of SG employees that received SPPR payments in excess of 28 days per award period in that year |
Percentage of the total number of SG employees that received SPPR awards in that year |
| 2015 |
0 |
0% |
| 2016 |
1 |
13% |
| 2017 |
5 |
56% |
| 2018 |
2 |
50% |
| 2019 |
1 |
100% |
| 2020 |
1 |
100% |
4. The number of SG employees that have received SPPR in excess of 42 days per award period per calendar year is as follows:
|
Calendar year |
Number of SG employees that received SPPR payments in excess of 42 days per award period in that year |
Percentage of the total number of SG employees that received SPPR awards in that year |
| 2015 |
0 |
0% |
| 2016 |
1 |
13% |
| 2017 |
2 |
22% |
| 2018 |
1 |
25% |
| 2019 |
0 |
0% |
| 2020 |
0 |
0% |
5. The number of SG employees that have received SPPR in excess of 120 days per award period per calendar year is as follows:
|
Calendar year |
Number of SG employees that received SPPR payments in excess of 120 days per award period in that year |
Percentage of the total number of SG employees that received SPPR awards in that year |
| 2015 |
0 |
0% |
| 2016 |
0 |
0% |
| 2017 |
2 |
22% |
| 2018 |
0 |
0% |
| 2019 |
0 |
0% |
| 2020 |
0 |
0% |
6. The longest total number of days any individual has received SPPR for in each year is as follows:
| Calendar year |
Longest total number of days that any SG employee received SPPR in that year |
| 2015 |
12 days |
| 2016 |
79 days |
| 2017 |
219 days |
| 2018 |
49 days |
| 2019 |
37 days |
| 2020 |
39 days |
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