Student Awards Agency Scotland organisational spend: FOI release
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
Please provide the following information for each financial year from 2021–22 to 2025–26 (to date) and please breakdown the information by each year:
1. The cost of overtime paid to employees.
2. The cost of agency and temporary staff.
3. The cost to recruitment agencies.
4. The cost of all spending on external consultants.
5. The cost of spending on social media and digital advertising.
6. The cost of public relations and communications.
7. The cost of any financial losses and special payments for each year. This could include things like abandoned projects, errors, write-offs.
8. The cost of compensation.
9. The cost of severance pay.
10. The cost of upgrading IT equipment (not due to it being broken).
11. The expenditure on EDI-related activities and staff, including payments to external organisations or consultants, EDI training delivered to staff, etc.
Response
The information you requested is summarised in the attached table. Please note that this data is also publicly available in our Annual Report and Accounts for the respective financial years found on our website Corporate Publications - SAAS. Information for the current financial year 2025–2026 is provided year-to-date July 2025.
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Contact
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Central Correspondence Unit
Email: contactus@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
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Edinburgh
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