Social Security Scotland - Employee job title and salary information: FOI release
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
Request for information 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.
Request for information 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.
Request for information 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
Request for information 1:
The table below show the roles for each of these years, and the pay details can be found within the attached document, ANNEX 1.
|
Calendar year |
Grade |
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2023 (October – December) |
1 C1, 1 B3 |
|
2024 |
1 C1, 2 B3, 2 B2 and 1 A4 (1/4 of time) |
|
2025 |
1 C1, 1 B3, 2 B2, 1 B1 and 1 A4 (1/4 of time) |
|
2026 (to date) |
1 C1, 1 B3, 2 B2, 1 B1 and 1 A4 (1/4 of time) |
Job roles
C1 – Diversity and Inclusion Lead
B3 – Inclusive Communication and Equality Manager
B2 – Inclusive Communication and Equality Specialist
B1 – Inclusive Communication and Equality Adviser
Request for information 2:
An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to all of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, i.e. given the low numbers of staff who have been suspended on full pay over this period, we are satisfied that there is a realistic prospect that releasing the information risks releasing personal information, and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. This exemption is not subject to the ‘public interest test,’ so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption.
However, in order to assist, there were six people in total who were suspended with full pay at some point between 2020 and the current date.
The grades ranged from A3 to B2, and the respective pay ranges are attached for that period. In all cases the reason for suspension was due to misconduct.
Request for information 3:
Some of the information you have requested is routinely published within our Annual Reports and Accounts and is available on our website.
Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. If, however, you do not have internet access to obtain this information from the website(s) listed, then please contact me again and I will send you a paper copy.
The overtime expenditure for the current financial year, up to the end of January 2026, is £1.5 million.
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Contact
Please quote the FOI reference
Central Correspondence Unit
Email: contactus@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG