Transport Scotland - Workforce queries: FOI release

Information requested

1. The number of employees in your organisation with any of the phrase’s “diversity”, “inclusion”, “equality” or “equity” in their job title in the financial years 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 to date. Please also provide the salaries paid to them in each of these financial years, and a list of the relevant job titles.

2. The total number of staff suspended with pay by your organisation, and the cost of paying their salaries while suspended with pay, in the financial years 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 to date.

3. The total amount of money spent by your organisation on overtime payments in the financial years 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 to date.

Response

1. There were zero employees in the organisation with any of the phrases “diversity”, “inclusion”, “equality” or “equity” in their job title in the financial years 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 to date.

2. There was one staff member suspended with pay by the organisation. The cost of paying their gross salary while suspended was:

Financial Year	Cost
2022-2023	£43,677.91
2023-2024	£46,789.49
2024-2025	£48,637.83
2025-2026	£2,080.47

3. The total amount of money spent by the organisation on overtime payments by financial years was:

Financial Year	Cost
2021-22	£239,641.63
2022-23	£259,131.88
2023-24	£255,431.73
2024-25	£926,383.37
2025-26	£143,889.78

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