The staff structure for the First Minister office: FOI release
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
The staff structure/organogram (giving job titles, not names of individuals) for the First Minister office, including both civil service and political staff, and (ii) the wider and complete political staff structure/organogram (special advisors) of the current Scottish Government.
The pay grades for each staff member in the First Minister office.
Response
First Minister's Private Office:
- Principal Private Secretary - senior civil service grade 1
- Senior Private Secretary - civil service grade C2
- Private Secretary - civil service grade C1
- Deputy Private Secretary - civil service grade B3
- Deputy Private Secretary - civil service grade B3
- Deputy Private Secretary - civil service grade B3
- Deputy Private Secretary - civil service grade B1
- Deputy Private Secretary - civil service grade B1
- Assistant Private Secretary - civil service grade A4
The Private Office staff above work flexibly across portfolio private office teams, as required.
The pay grades for the civil service are attached in Annex A.
All staff in the Private Office are career civil servants.
The information you request about Special Advisers is available on the Scottish Government website here: Special advisers.
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Contact
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Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrews House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG
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