FOI 25-322 Overpayments and Underpayments to SAS Staff
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- FOI 25-322 Overpayments and Underpayments to SAS Staff
- Request Date
- 29 Jul 2025
- Response Date
- 20 Aug 2025
- Information Requested
1. For each of the following financial years (24/25, 23/24, 22/23, 21/22, 20/21):
a) The number of financial overpayments made to staff
b) number of financial underpayments made to staff.
c) The respectively amounts of overpayments in GBP (£)
d) the respective amounts of underpayments in GBP (£)
2. And then the number of times bailiffs or any other debt enforcement agency was brought in to pursue trust staff in order to recover overpayments.
Please provide this for each of the following financial years (24/25, 23/24, 22/23, 21/22, 20/21):
*If financial year is not possible, please provide instead by calendar year / any other format in which you hold your data
** Wherever possible (and where this doesn't impact on cost) please provide the information in Excel format.- Response
Please see the table below detailing the total number of overpayments made to staff and the total value of the overpayments made to staff for the years requested. This information is held in calendar years which is what has been provided below.
Year
Value £
Pay Numbers
2020
141,475.82
207
2021
191,821.85
300
2022
167,810.01
316
2023
127,709.60
238
2024
135,999.95
198
2025
21,782.25
135
Grand Total
786599.48
1394
The Scottish Ambulance Service does not routinely capture information on underpayments made to staff. Underpayments are usually a result of late or missed submissions to payroll and rectified by the following pay submission. It is for this reason we have applied section 17 of the Freedom of Information Scotland Act 2002 as information not held.
The Scottish Ambulance Service have not contracted Bailiffs or any other debt enforcement agency during the years requested.
- Response Documents
