Scottish Governments Permanent Secretaries and Director Generals pension spend: FOI release

Information requested

How much money has been spent on pensions for the Scottish Governments Permanent Secretaries and Director Generals in each of the last 5 years with a breakdown of the costs?

Response

We have interpreted your request as relating to core Scottish Government, in line with the structuring of consolidated accounts and therefore the below table covers the costs and years for Scottish Government Core only:

	2020/21	2021/22	2022/23	2023/24	2024/25
Permanent Secretary	£51,631.23	£ 51,823.32	£ 52,484.48	£ 55,371.15	£ 55,587.62
Director Generals	£210,258.36	£252,963.27	£317,225.34	£346,527.92	£360,243.94

We are providing the information on a financial year basis which is consistent with our annual accounts publications.

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