Public Sector Employment in Scotland Statistics for 2nd Quarter 2023

Reserved Public Sector Employment in Scotland; Headcount

The reserved public sector employment includes:

• Reserved Civil Service
• Armed Forces
• Other Public Sector (which covers Public Sector Financial Institutions, Non-Departmental Bodies and Other Bodies)

The number of people employed in the reserved public sector in June 2023 was 56,800. This was 1,260 (2.3%) higher than in June 2022.

Figure 7 shows the size of each group in the reserved public sector as at June 2023.

Figure 7: Reserved Civil Service employs the largest number of people in the Reserved Public Sector

Breakdown of Reserved Public Sector employment (Headcount) in Scotland as at June 2023

Source: Public Sector Employment in Scotland, Quarter 2 2023.

Note: Totals may not equal the sum of the individual parts due to rounding.

The increase over the year in the overall reserved public sector headcount was due to the following changes (changes are given from June 2022 to June 2023):

• employment in Other Public Sector increased by 1,680 (8.3%) to 22,000

while:

• employment  in Armed Forces decreased by 200 (-1.9%) to 10,300
• employment in the Reserved Civil Service decreased by 210 (-0.9%) to 24,600