Scottish Government

More detailed, up-to-date information on Public Sector Employment can be found at the various links shown below:

Overall public sector employment

This section focuses on overall employment in both:

• public bodies which are the devolved responsibility of the Scottish Government or Scottish Parliament and
• reserved public sector bodies for which the UK Government has ministerial responsibility.

Devolved public sector employment

This section focuses on employment in public bodies which are the devolved responsibility of the Scottish Government or Scottish Parliament.

Reserved public sector employment

This section focuses on the public sector bodies for which the UK Government has ministerial responsibility.

Local government employment for Scotland and by local authority

This section provides information on local government employment in each local authority by staffing group (Police and related staff, Fire and related staff and Other staff). This information is collected in the quarterly Joint Staffing Watch Survey and feeds into the PSE publication.

Public Sector Simplification

This section provides employment information on the national devolved public bodies which form part of the Scottish Government's Simplification Programme.

Link to detailed excel tables

Tables showing complete time series for each quarter from Q1 1999.

Background notes

Technical information covering PSE methodology, concepts and definitions. Information on any revisions made to the series are available in the background notes.

Related Links

Links to:

• Revisions policy
• UK Public Sector Employment
• Regional estimates of public sector employment
• Annual Civil Service statistics