Question reference: S5W-31824
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 15 September 2020
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Current status: Answered by John Swinney on 29 September 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many civil servants were involved in the work preparing for the judicial review into the handling of sexual harassment complaints, broken down by (a) the hours that they were involved and (b) salary band.
Answer
Staff working on responding to the judicial review are civil servants who receive a salary rather than being separately remunerated for dealing with particular matters. In addition, they do not record the proportion of their time that they spend working on particular matters as a matter of course. It is therefore not possible to say how many hours were spent by civil servants involved in this work. Staff working on the judicial review were in band A, B, C and the Senior Civil Service.