Education Scotland employees given permission to work from outside the United Kingdom: FOI release

Information requested

Information relating to quango staff being given permission to work from outside the United Kingdom to include the following information for financial years, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24:

• The number of employees currently with permission to work outside of the United Kingdom.
• The number of employees who were given permission to work outside of the United Kingdom in the 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24 financial years.
• If possible, for each employee given permission, please provide their pay band, and the country which they were provided permission to work from.

Response

Education Scotland is an executive agency of the Scottish Government tasked with improving the quality of the country’s education system, we are not classed as a quasi-autonomous nongovernment organisation (QUANGO).

The number of employees currently with permission to work outside of the UK:

Year	No. of colleagues
2024/25	1

The number of employees who were given permission to work outside of the UK:

Year	No. of colleagues
2021/22	6
2022/23	28
2023/24	55

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance Education Scotland does not have the information you have requested on their pay band, and the country which they were provided permission to work from.

This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that Education Scotland does not have the information you have requested.

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