Information relating to Social Security Scotland Executive Team: FOI release

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002

FOI Reference: FOI/202500465830
Date received: 13 May 2025
Date responded: 9 June 2025

Information requested

Request for information 1: The names and grades (substantive and temporary) of all members of Social Security Scotland Executive Team as of 1 April 2025.

Request for information 2: The number of Executive Team members who have a contractual workplace location other than Glasgow High St or Agnes Husband House, Dundee.

Request for information 3: The weekly average number of days each member of the Executive Team has worked from Glasgow High St or Agnes Husband House, Dundee, between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025.

Request for information 4: The aggregated value of all travel and subsistence claims made by each member of the Executive Team who have a contractual workplace location other than Glasgow High St or Agnes Husband House, Dundee, between their contractual registered place of work, or their home, broken down by rail, air, hotel, taxi, private vehicle mileage claims for the last 3 financial years.

Request for information 5: A breakdown of the aggregated amount from request for information 4 by Executive Team member for each financial year.

Response

Request for information 1:

The table below details the names and grades of all members of Social Security Scotland’s Executive Team as of 1 April 2025.

Request for information 2:

Three members of Social Security Scotland’s Executive Team have a contractual workplace location other than Glasgow High St or Agnes Husband House, Dundee. Contracts of employment for Senior Civil Servants, including workplace locations, are agreed by Scottish Government Senior Civil HR, prior to taking up appointment.

Request for information 3:

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance Social Security Scotland does not have the information you have requested. Social Security Scotland does not gather information on individual visits to offices on a weekly basis.

This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that Social Security Scotland does not have the information you have requested.

Request for information 4:

The table below shows the total value of all travel and subsistence claims made by members of the Executive Team who have a contractual workplace location other than Glasgow or Dundee, between their contractual registered place of work, or their home, broken down by rail and hotel for the last three financial years.

The table does not include information relating to air, taxi or private vehicle mileage as the total for each of these were nil.

Request for information 5:

The table below provides information on the total value of travel spend by Executive Team member, for the last three financial years.

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, i.e. the names of the Executive Team members, 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 exemption is not subject to the ‘public interest test’, so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption.

About FOI

Social Security Scotland is committed to publishing all information released in response to Freedom of Information requests. The Scottish Government also publishes responses to requests. You can view the responses at http://www.gov.scot/foi-responses.