FOI Release: Press and media staff
Published: 07 October 2024Freedom of information class: What we spend and how
Information request under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA).
FOI reference: CW-2024-480
Date received: 13 September 2024
Date clarified: 18 September 2024
Date responded: 4 October 2024
Information requested:
- The total number of full-time equivalent (FTE) press and/or communications and/or media officers employed over the last five financial years (broken down by year).
- The total cost (including salaries, benefits, and other associated costs) of employing these press and/or communications and/or media officers over the last five financial years (broken down by year).
You clarified that you were looking for the number and cost of employing full-time equivalent communications staff whose job relates to external press and media.
Response:
| Organisation | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25* | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Cost | Number | Cost | Number | Cost | Number | Cost | Number | Cost | |
| Registers of Scotland | 3 | £169,386.08 | 2.42 | £138,198.45 | 2 | £104,578.84 | 2 | £115,126.28 | 2 | £50,543.00 |
*The figure provided for 2024-25 is a part year cost.
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