Scotland Office: Staff
(asked on 22nd September 2020) - View Source
Question to the Scotland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many staff were employed in his Department who were based in (a) London and (b) Scotland on (i) September 2020 and (ii) 1 April in each year from 2015 to 2020.
The Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland does not employ staff directly. All staff that join do so on an assignment, loan or secondment from other government bodies; principally the Scottish Government and the Ministry of Justice, who remain the employers.
Staff on assignment, loan or secondment from other government bodies to the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland were based as follows:
Date | London | Scotland |
31 March 2015 | 27 | 44 |
31 March 2016 | 35 | 41 |
31 March 2017 | 34 | 38 |
31 March 2018 | 32 | 42 |
31 March 2019 | 40 | 45 |
31 March 2020 | 34 | 47 |
31 August 2020* | 37 | 48 |
*Data provided from 31 August as nearest recorded information held to the requested dates.