FOI 29-26: A request for information about Assembly employment grades

Freedom of Information Act 2000

I am writing to confirm that the Northern Ireland Assembly Commission (Assembly Commission) has processed your request dated 27 May 2026 in line with the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Your request was as follows:

‘I would like to request the following information:

(i) The number of staff in post at each Assembly grade

(ii) The number of those staff which are substantive and agency per grade

(iii) The number of vacancies at each Assembly grade

(iv) The current pay scales for each Assembly grade.’

 

Our response

This information you have requested is provided in Appendix A Below.

 

Further Information

You may request an internal review of this decision by the Assembly Commission. If you wish to request such a review, please write to me at the above address.  If, after that review, you are dissatisfied with the way in which the Assembly Commission has handled your request for information, you may complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

 

Your request for information and our response may be published in the disclosure log maintained by the Assembly Commission under a publication scheme agreed with the ICO. The request and our response will be anonymised. 

 

Yours sincerely,

INFORMATION STANDARDS