Request

You asked us:

‘I note that the NHS Pension Scheme Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 provides aggregate information on pensions in payment, but does not include any breakdown of pension amounts by pensioner. Accordingly, I would like to request the following information.

1. The number of NHS Pension Scheme pensioners in payment whose annual pension is greater than:

a. £30,000

b. £50,000

c. £70,000

d. £100,000

To ensure the request remains within the FoI cost limit, please provide this information only if it already exists in the form of an internal statistical table, summary, or extract that can be released without manipulation of individual member records.

If the thresholds used above do not match an existing statistical table, I would be grateful if you could provide the closest available pension-band distribution for pensioners in payment.’ [Date range: 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024]

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 12 December 2025.

On 8 January 2026 you confirmed that data in the following bandings would be acceptable:

£33,000 – £49,999.99 

£50,000 – £99,999.99 

£100,000 and over 

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000.

Our response

Under Section 21 of the FOIA, we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you.

The information you requested is available on the NHSBSA Open Data Portal under FOI-03367 and FOI-02147. These FOIs can be found using the following links.

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-03367 https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-02147

Please see the following link to view the section 21 in full - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/21

Publishing this response

Please note that this information will be published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-03451

Your personal details will be removed from the published response.