The final delayed annual report of the Public Services Commission (PSC) has been published - and shows the number of government workers has continued to rise.
Delays in publishing the PSC annual reports for the last three years were the subject of a tense exchange in Tynwald in December.
Former PSC chair Kate Lord-Brennan accused ex health minister Lawrie Hooper of having been a ‘Minister of Double Standards’ when he pressed for the release of the documents.
A combined report for the years 2021-22 and 2022-23 was published on the Tynwald website in December and now the report for 2023-2024 has been published too.
It shows that there were 4,140.61 full-time equivalent PSC staff in government departments, boards and offices - an increase of 140.81, equating to 3.52%, from 2023.
Of these staff, 1,062.97 FTE employees are based within Manx Care.
The average age is 47, three years higher than the UK civil service.
In 2023-24, there were a total of 296.6 FTE leavers across the PSC, equating to 7.15% of the workforce. The main reason was voluntary resignation, followed by retirement.
Manx Care saw the highest number of new PSC hires, with 121.5 FTE in total.
The 12-month average percentage of worktime lost for all PSC staff for 2023-24 was 5.62% - an increase from 2022-23 when it was 4.63%.
During the year, six conciliated settlement agreements were made with departing civil servants, at a cost of £269,365.
This is way down from the 28 the previous year, which were made at cost of more than £1.9m.