Scottish Government spend on agency staff: FOI release

Information requested

Please provide a breakdown of the total spending by the Scottish Government on agency staff for the 2025-26 to date, separated by:

• Directorate
• Grade equivalent of staff hired
• Length of contract (less than 6 months, 6–12 months, over 12 months)

Response

Please find the total spend in the attached Annex A Breakdown of spend for 2025 is only available up to the end of June 2025 as this is supplied on a quarterly basis by the suppliers on the framework as part of the management information provided.

The Scottish Government does not have the information you have asked for regarding Directorate, Grade equivalent or length of contract. Agency staff are not employed by the Scottish Government, therefore we don't have them on our HR and Payroll system. This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.

The Scottish Government implemented an Oracle Cloud enterprise resource planning system in Autumn 2024, replacing our legacy HR and Finance systems. Though the data capture of temporary workers remains an area requiring some further development, the implementation of a combined HR and Finance system will improve the data we hold on workforce costs.

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FOI 202500484303 - Information released - Annex A

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