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Question reference: S6W-38469

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 06 June 2025
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 20 June 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-37703 by Shona Robison on 30 May 2025, how this data compares with 2016.

The Scottish Government publish official workforce statistics on a quarterly basis. The figures shown below are for December 2016. The latest data is available at Scottish Government workforce information - gov.scot.

The data presented details workforce by contractual location – and includes staff home location for those on a home working contract. This is in line with the data submitted on a quarterly basis to the cabinet office for the Quarterly location survey of civil service staff.

The following table provides details of the working location of directly employed Scottish Government staff, split by Local authority, Full time/Part time working pattern and Permanent/Temporary status.

Scottish Government - Directly employed workforce headcount, December 2016

	Permanent - Full time	Permanent - Part time	Temporary - Full Time	Temporary - Part Time	Total
Aberdeen City	212	33	10	0	255
Aberdeenshire	66	12	4	0	82
Angus	3	2	0	0	5
Argyll and Bute	32	6	3	0	41
Clackmannanshire	0	0	0	0	0
Dumfries and Galloway	26	8	1	0	35
Dundee City	18	2	0	0	20
East Ayrshire	0	0	0	0	0
East Dunbartonshire	0	0	0	0	0
East Lothian	0	0	0	0	0
East Renfrewshire	0	0	0	0	0
City of Edinburgh	3005	603	103	6	3717
Falkirk	34	10	1	0	45
Fife	2	0	0	0	2
Glasgow City	598	106	16	2	722
Highland	98	24	7	0	129
Inverclyde	0	0	0	0	0
Midlothian	0	0	0	0	0
Moray	13	2	0	1	16
Na h-Eileanan Siar	17	6	4	1	28
North Ayrshire	0	0	0	0	0
North Lanarkshire	0	0	0	0	0
Orkney Islands	13	2	0	0	15
Perth and Kinross	87	27	1	1	116
Renfrewshire	0	1	0	0	1
Scottish Borders	30	8	1	2	41
Shetland Islands	14	0	1	0	15
South Ayrshire	37	14	0	0	51
South Lanarkshire	18	8	0	0	26
Stirling	0	0	0	0	0
West Dunbartonshire	0	0	0	0	0
West Lothian	16	4	0	0	20
Outwith Scotland	8	0	0	0	8
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