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The inspectorate in 2023-24
Finance
60. The inspectorate is funded by the Scottish Government. Our budget for 2023-24 was £433,000. This was an almost 2% increase, from £425,000, in 2022-23. The increase was intended to cover rising staff costs, however, had we been fully staffed throughout the year, our budget would have been overspent. We were able to stay within budget only through vacancy management. Rising staff costs will continue to be a challenge in 2024-25. Staff costs typically account for the majority of our annual spend – in 2023-24, staff costs made up 97% of our annual spend.
61. In 2023-24, our expenditure was as follows:
Staff costs - £415,414
Subsistence and motor mileage - £346
Printing and binding - £2,971
Travel and accommodation - £572
Hospitality - £121
Conference fees - £844
Other running costs - £9,811
Total - £430,079
62. Under sections 31 and 32 of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, IPS is required to publish certain information, including on expenditure. This information is published at Appendix 1.
Staff
63. As at 31 March 2024, the staff of IPS was 3.57 full-time equivalents and consisted of the Chief Inspector, Assistant Inspector of Prosecution, Business Inspector and a Personal Assistant.
64. The secondment of our Legal Inspector from COPFS came to an end in March 2024. A new Legal Inspector was recruited in early 2024 and commenced his secondment on 1 April 2024, bringing our staffing complement to 4.57 full-time equivalents for 2024-25.
Freedom of Information requests
65. IPS is subject to the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. We publish information about our work, including our inspection reports, on our website. In 2023-24, we received eight freedom of information requests, all of which were responded to within the required timescale.