FOI reference: FOI-2024-2260

You asked

Please can you confirm if you employ in-house legal services? If you do, please provide:

  1. Job titles for all legal roles/roles within your Legal team.

  2. The employee salary/pay bands for each Legal role.

  3. Job advertisements for roles within your Legal team since 2020.

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Thank you for your request. 

Legal services roles

The UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) has a Legal Services team of policy professionals, who provide guidance to colleagues on queries relating to data legislation, data protection and freedom of information.

When legal advice is required, this is commissioned from the Government Legal Department.

Current job titles for the UKSA Legal Services team are:

  • Head of Legal Services - G7
  • Deputy Head of Legal Services - G7
  • Senior Legal Services Policy Officer - SEO 
  • Legal Services Policy Officer - HEO
  • Legal Services Policy Assistant - EO

Pay scales and job adverts for Legal Services

Pay scales for each grade can be found in the associated download named 'FOI-2024-2260 Pay scales for relevant grades.pdf'. This reflects the pay offer for 2023 to 2024.

Job advertisements for legal services roles since 2020 can be found in the associated download named 'FOI-2024-2260 Legal Services Job Adverts 2020-2024.pdf'. Personal data has been redacted from this document under Section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).

Please note that pay scales cited in the adverts reflect pay at the time of advertising, and would not reflect subsequent pay awards over time.