Various spending by Education Scotland: FOI release

Information requested

The total amounts Education Scotland has spent across the financial years 2021–22 to 2025–26 (to date) on corporate functions (broken down by function type), overtime, repairing or replacing equipment, written‑off inventory and IT equipment, consultants, agency staff, recruitment agencies, social media advertising (including reasons where possible), and compensation payments.

Response

1. The total amount spent on corporate functions by your organisation in the financial years 2021- 22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 to date. Please also break this down by the type of function – for example, human resources.

	21/22	22/23	23/24	24/25	25/26 to end Jan
	£	£	£	£	£
Finance and Governance	755,989	820,283	730,783	874,083	739,940
Human Resources	298,858	292,307	289,838	628,760	486,759
Communications	327,669	587,958	694,070	427,625	268,902
Procurement	148,372	134,215	104,188	112,980	113,075
Business Support	1,124,306	1,196,548	1,083,180	908,720	853,220
Corporate Digital Services	473,279	817,279	960,004	1,049,853	1,125,689
	3,128,473	3,848,590	3,862,063	4,002,021	3,587,585

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

	Overtime total
	£
21-22	17,319.88
22-23	16,346.78
23-24	5,657.81
24-25	10,474.72
25-26 to end Jan	5,514.97

3. The total amount of money spent fixing/replacing broken equipment in the financial years 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 to date.

Broken laptops are not repaired as they are not deemed economical. Replacement laptops are part-used laptops therefore no outlay. New laptops are only purchased for refresh – i.e. out of warranty.

4. The total financial loss to your organisation on written off inventory and IT equipment in the financial years 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 to date.

	Loss on disposal
	£
21-22	7,329
22-23	0
23-24	0
24-25	0
25-26 to end Jan	0

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

Education Scotland has not spent any money on consultants for the years requested (as declared in the Annual Report and Accounts).

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

	Total agency spend
	£
21-22	2,016,123
22-23	1,542,318
23-24	508,774
24-25	823,493
25-26 to end Jan	351,592

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

	Total recruitment agency spend
	£
21-22	46,214.96
22-23	13,896.00
23-24	11,182.22
24-25	0
25-26 to end Jan	0

8. The total amount of money spent on social media advertising by your organisation in the financial years 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 to date. Please provide the reason for the advertising in each case if possible. 

	Total social media advertising spend
	£
21-22	0
22-23	0
23-24	0
24-25	0
25-26 to end Jan	0

9. The total amount of compensation payments made by your organisation in the financial years 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 to date.

	Total compensation payments spend
	£
21-22	0
22-23	0
23-24	0
24-25	0
25-26 to end Jan	0

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