Communications Staff - FOI Response Register

FoI Number
2025-123
Subject
Communications Staff
Date Received
20/05/2025
Request and Response

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):

  1. the total amount spent on all communications staff employed in your health board

19/20

20/21

21/22

22/23

24/25

 £  38,176

 £  52,241

 £  52,199

 £  57,050

 £  97,525

 

As of 1 April 2025:

  1. the total number of staff currently employed in a communications role, broken down by role and salary

1 x Band 5 Communications Officer,

1 x Senior Communications Officer Band 6,

1 x Band 6 Senior Comms Officer currently on secondment to Scot Gov

  1. the total number of posts currently unfilled/vacant.

 None