FOI 25-215 Communication Team
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- FOI 25-215 Communication Team
- Request Date
- 19 May 2025
- Response Date
- 12 Jun 2025
- Information Requested
I would like to request the following information under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
I am keen to understand the spend on communications staff by your health board.
As such, can you provide, broken down by the financial years 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26 (most recent):
- the total amount spent on all communications staff employed in your health board
As of 1 April 2025:
- the total number of staff currently employed in a communications role, broken down by role and salary
- the total number of posts currently unfilled/vacant.
- Response
Please see the table below detailing the total spend on Communications staff employed by the Scottish Ambulance Service for the years requested:
Financial year
Cost
2020/21
£216,447
2021/22
£232,008
2022/23
£243,202
2023/24
£282,930
2024/25
£286,259
We have a team of 4 communications/public relations staff, comprising 1 communications manager (Band 8a) and 3 communications officers (Band 6). This has remained unchanged over the last 5 years and there are currently no unfilled or vacant posts.
The salary scales for all AfC banding are readily available online National pay scales for eligible healthcare occupation codes - GOV.UK
We have exempt the provision of individual salaries for the communications staff under section 38 1(b) of the Freedom of Information Act 2002 as personal information.
