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We publish the following information on staff salaries in the Scottish Government, which includes the Social Security Directorate:

And we publish the following information on our staff numbers:

Regarding the salaries for contingent workers, we refer you to the PQ responses in the following links:

S5W-25516 – /parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx?SearchType=Advance&ReferenceNumbers=S5W-25516&ResultsPerPage=10

S5W-25345 – /parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx?SearchType=Advance&ReferenceNumbers=S5W-25345&ResultsPerPage=10

Given the speed at which the Scottish Child Payment is being rolled out, policy and delivery development to date has primarily focussed on the early payments for children aged under 6 which will begin before Christmas 2020.

Across social security, we are committed to reducing the barriers to claiming benefits and promoting take up, making the process as simple and straightforward as possible, and ensuring people are treated with dignity and respect. Ahead of the payment being fully rolled out by the end of 2022, we will continue to undertake detailed stakeholder engagement and user research, alongside operational and technical requirements, to inform future application and payment processes.

The latest policy position paper, published on gov.scot, provides further detail on this: .

When the Scottish Child Payment was launched, it was made clear that while the payment would be fully introduced by the end of 2022, early payments would be made for children under 6. In order to introduce this payment early, and significantly ahead of schedule, we have had to work within certain legal and technical parameters. This is, therefore, a standalone payment for eligible families with children under 6, and, at this stage, payments will not continue beyond this age during 2020-21 and 2021-22.

Full details of the legal and technical issues is set out in an updated position paper, published on Friday 4 October and available on the Scottish Government’s website: .

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Table 1. Number of permanent staff who made an overtime claim for programme management and delivery division.

Table 1. Cost of overtime claims for permanent staff in programme management and delivery division.

Table 1. Overtime hours and minutes worked in each month for programme management and delivery division permanent staff.

All suppliers contracted to provide interim and contingent labour are required to provide monthly reports detailing the workers assigned and the associated rates charged.

Contingent workers are not employed directly by Scottish Government and do not have records on an SG payroll. Information on contingent workers employed by agencies and engaged in Scottish Government Core is published in our Official Statistics publication which can be found here.

Workers in scope for IR35 are an exception to the above as regards payroll. They are counted as contingent workers and are not employed directly by SG. They have a contract for provision of services not a contract of employment but do have a payroll record. Payroll is used to deduct the necessary PAYE tax and National Insurance contributions from the payment for services provided. It does not infer any employment relationship.

Since 2017, 4 workers hired directly have been found to be in scope and we are making appropriate tax and NI deductions.

Information on tax-domicile and residency status of interim and contingent workers provided through third parties would be more appropriately collected by the supplier. We have no information on this.

For those hired directly we collect the information required on domicile and residency to ensure correct tax and NI deductions and payments.

We do not hold a central record of the number of IR35 assessments undertaken. Assessments are conducted on a case by case basis by individual business areas.