Agency Staff (Scottish Government Expenditure)

Part of Finance and Local Government – in the Scottish Parliament at on 3 September 2025.

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Alexander Stewart will be aware that the Scottish Government works within a fixed budget and balances its budget every year. The whole point of the public service reform agenda is to continue to move resources from the corporate functions and to deploy them to the front line in exactly the way that he has talked about. The strategy contains a number of examples of ways in which we have successfully done that. I have just cited the example of the number of contingent workers, which is 47 per cent lower than it was three years ago. We will continue to deliver on that agenda in order to free up those resources and ensure that they are deployed effectively in an integrated way on the front line.