Scottish Government employees with a declared disability: FOI release

Information requested

• How many current employees within the Scottish Government have declared a disability?
• What proportion of current Scottish Government employees have declared a disability in comparison to the whole workforce?
• Could you provide a breakdown in which departments of the Scottish Government employees noted in (1) are employed within?
• If possible, could you also provide a breakdown in terms of employees noted in (1)’s sex, gender, and age

Response

• Under 25(1) of Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA) (regulation 6(1)(b) of the EIRs), This is information is publicly available in the latest release of the Scottish Government workforce information Official Statistics publication.
• Under 25(1) of Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA) (regulation 6(1)(b) of the EIRs), This is information is publicly available in the latest release of the Scottish Government workforce information Official Statistics publication.
• Under 25(1) of Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA) (regulation 6(1)(b) of the EIRs), This is information is publicly available in the latest release of the Diversity and Inclusion statistics of the Scottish Government workforce Official Statistics publication.
• While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, under section 17(1) of Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA) we do not hold data on the gender of staff.

We have supplied the requested data on staff numbers, categorised by disability status, age and sex:

Age/Sex	1. Disabled	2. Not disabled	3. Prefer not to say	4. Unknown
16-29	150	674	41	429
30-39	374	1540	98	657
40-49	357	1581	100	563
50-54	171	629	44	274
55-59	131	609	47	206
60+	81	406	18	169
Female	824	3066	212	1177
Male	440	2373	136	1121

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