Job title information with specific phrases and information relating to staff pay when suspended and overtime payments

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Your request was about the following information:

Q1. The number of employees in your organisation with any of the phrase’s “diversity”, “inclusion”, “equality” or “equity” in their job title in the financial years 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 to date. Please also provide the salaries paid to them in each of these financial years, and a list of the relevant job titles. 

Q2. The total number of staff suspended with pay by your organisation, and the cost of paying their salaries while suspended with pay, in the financial years 2021 22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 to date. 

Q3. The total amount of money spent by your organisation on overtime payments in the financial years 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 to date.

Response

A1. Food Standards Scotland (FSS) do not have the information to respond to this question. FSS have never employed a dedicated EDI resource. 

A2. The total number of staff suspended with pay by your organisation, and the cost of paying their salaries while suspended with pay, in the financial years 2021 22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 to date can be found in the table below.

YearNumber of EmployeesSalary
2021-20220n/a
2022-20232

£1413.72 

£32,123.45

2023-20240n/a
2024-20251£21,657.90
2025-20261£9920.23
Overall total4£65,115.30

A3. The total amount of money spent by your organisation on overtime payments in the financial years 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 to date can be found in the table below.

YearMoney Spent
2021-2022£412,580.27
2022-2023£373,605.57
2023-2024£352,383.44
2024-2025£395,783.02
2025-2026 to date (P9)£390,706.65
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