Education Scotland corporate functions spend: FOI release

Information requested

• The data your organisation provided to the Scottish Government for total spending on corporate functions in 2022-23, broken down by the total cost of running HR, finance, commercial, communications, digital & data and estate.
• Updated data on your organisation’s total spending on corporate functions in 2023-24, broken down by the total cost of running HR, finance, commercial, communications, digital & data and estate.

For reference, the data on spend on corporate functions that you refer to can be found here: Public body expenditure involving corporate functions - Public Bodies Expenditure: Supplementary Report of Data Commission - gov.scot

Response

Please find below the information you have requested.

Function	FY22/23 (£)	FY23/24 (£)
Human Resources	287,012	302,676
Finance	252,085	305,858
Commercial	227,581	213,444
Communications	592,631	711,697
Digital & Data	3,536,511	3,648,931
Estates	97,262	94,399

Higher costs in 2023-24 reflect a wage increase which applied to all permanent staff.

Costs of the finance and communications functions in 2023-24 were more than the wage increase. In both cases vacant posts were filled.

Costs of the commercial and estates functions decreased in 2023-24 as permanent staff were recruited to vacant posts and these costs were lower.

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