FOI Request - Council Agency Worker Data
Request 101003841254
I am looking for information for 2024-25, 2023-24 and 2022-23 and have included tables which you can use if convenient. Please provide me with:
1. The number of agency workers in your council in each year
2. The percentage of the council workforce comprised of agency workers in each year
3. The number of agency workers who have been with the council for over 2 years in each year
4. The number of agency workers being paid over £75,000 (full time equivalent) per year in each year
5. The council’s total agency worker spending in each year
6. The overall staff turnover rate in each year
2024-25 2023-24 2022-23
Total number of agency workers
Total spending on agency workers
Agency workers as a percentage of workforce
Number of agency workers engaged for more than 2 years
Number of agency workers paid £75k and above (full time equivalent)
Overall staff turnover rate
7. A breakdown of the number of agency workers by engagement reason in each year. If your HR system categorises these differently, please use those categories instead:
Reason 2024-25 2023-24 2022-23
Cover for long term sickness
Cover for acting up
Cover for secondment
Cover of other long term absence
Filling a vacancy (no substantive postholder)
If data is not available for any particular category, please provide the closest equivalent data.
Response 18-09-2025
1. This information is not monitored and collated centrally. To gather this information from individual services/departments is estimated to take more than 40 hours, which would cost the Council in excess of £600 of staff time. In accordance with section 12 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (excessive cost), we are therefore unable to comply with this part of the request.
2. Not held. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.
3. Not held. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.
4. As per 1.
5. The information requested can be found published and accessible in a previous FOI response. This information is therefore exempt under section 25 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, information otherwise accessible. For ease of reference please find a link to the web page: http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_standard/page_163061.html
6. • Moray Council employee turnover rates for the following years:
o 2022-23 9%
o 2023-24 9.3%
o 2024-25 9.3%
7. Information not held. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.