Dear Sir or Madam,

Can you provide the number of job vacancies that were externally
advertised by the department broken down between April 07 to April
08 and between 1st April 2008 to 30th June 2008.

Yours faithfully,

Gavin Starky

Dear Gavin Starky

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION: 2008-013325

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Lynn Robb
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Dear Gavin

Please find below attached response to your freedom of information
request about externally advertised vacancies:

<<2008 - 013325 Response to Gavin Starky .doc>>

Alison Murray
Personnel Office
Scottish Parliament
EDINBURGH EH99 1SP

Telephone: 0131 348 6692
Typetalk: 018001 0131 348 6692
Fax: 0131 348 6639
E-mail: [email address]

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