Scottish Government employee maternity leave statistics: FOI release

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.


Information requested

1. In each year since 2019/20, how many Scottish Government employees have been granted maternity leave?

2. In relation to Q1, what was the recorded legal sex of each of these people: e.g. male, female, etc?

Response

The information you have requested is provided in the below table. As maternity leave is a statutory entitlement, it is not ‘granted’ by the Scottish Government as such. However, we have interpreted your question to mean the number of Scottish Government employees who have had a period of maternity leave in each of the years requested. Therefore, a single continuous period of maternity leave will appear in more than one year where it has spanned two different calendar years.

Year Number of Employees
2019-20 166
2020-21 187
2021-22 216
2022-23 287
2023-24 326
2024-25 223

2. All employees that have taken maternity leave, in each year since 2019/20, have a recorded legal sex of female.

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Contact

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Central Correspondence Unit
Email: contactus@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000

The Scottish Government
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Edinburgh
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