Staff with a home address based in England: FOI release
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
FOI Reference: FOI/202500493856
Date received: 10 November 2025
Date responded: 9 December 2025
Information requested
Request for information 1:
In each year since 2020-21, including the current year to date, how many staff at this organisation have a home address based in England?
Request for information 2:
Please break this down by pay banding if possible.
Response
Request for information 1:
The table below shows the total number of staff with a home address based in England for each of the years requested. The data is collated from the end of June each year in line with Social Security Scotland workforce statistic publications.
| Year | Total number of staff with a home address in England |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 10 |
| 2023 | 11 |
| 2024 | 25 |
| 2025 | 19 |
Request for information 2:
We have interpreted part two of your request for information to be for a breakdown of the information from part one by pay grade.
An exemption under Section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. This is because we believe that to disclose some of the numbers of staff, broken down by pay grade and where the number is five or less, could lead to the identification of individuals.
We can confirm that in 2024 there were seven members of staff with a C1 pay grade and in 2025 there were nine member of staff with a C1 pay grade, who had a home address based in England.
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