How many civil service vacancies in each grade it has advertised (a) only externally, (b) only internally and (c) simultaneously for both i…

The Scottish Executive fills posts through a variety of different methods, as appropriate, including internal and external recruitment and managed moves of existing staff. Where vacancies are advertised externally it is open to Scottish Executive staff who meet the relevant criteria to apply. The Scottish Executive does not centrally collect the information required to answer the question in the way it is broken down.
The following tables show data held on the Scottish Executive human resources system for staff recruitment and moves, by grade, for the Scottish Executive core departments (i.e. excluding Scottish Executive agencies and associated departments) for each year since 2000. Table 1 shows the number of staff recruited externally. Table 2 shows the number of internal staff moves within the core departments, including those internally advertised and those filled through managed moves. Although the Executive does not hold information for all external and internal staff moves outwith the core departments, tables 3 and 4 show the number of staff moves for Scottish Executive agencies and associated departments where these are from or to the core departments.
Table 1: Staff Assigned to the Scottish Executive Core Departments Recorded as Having a Method of Entry to Post of “New Recruit”
Year
| A1
| A2
| A3
| A4
| B1
| B2
| B3
| C1
| C2
| C3
| NA*
| SCS
| Total

2000
| 245
| 19
| 53
| 1
| 179
| 78
| 20
| 37
| 2
| 1
| 8
| 9
| 652

2001
| 415
| 19
| 89
| 1
| 199
| 90
| 21
| 59
| 4
| 0
| 14
| 13
| 924

2002
| 157
| 13
| 52
| 3
| 210
| 72
| 19
| 41
| 1
| 0
| 9
| 12
| 589

2003
| 149
| 5
| 16
| 1
| 130
| 61
| 17
| 68
| 1
| 0
| 8
| 3
| 459