Could you provide me with a similar table that is provided in the attachments but updated to include all the intervening years data that you have?

Could you also ensure that the figures in the table are set out so that it has three columns (i) £50,000 to £74,999, (ii) £75,000 to £99,999 and (iii) £100,000 plus, so ensuring that somebody with a pension of £100,000 plus only appears in that column and not all three.

This was clarified with the following:

When I say intervening years what I’d like is one for each year from 2016 onwards, and I’d like the data for just NHS pensioners in their own right.

Your clarified request was received on 13 April 2023 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Response

A copy of the information is attached.

These figures reflect the volumes and amounts of people in payment in the year in question. It is not necessarily the year the pensioners commenced pension, or the pension they were implemented with, it is an ongoing rolling figure.

It doesn’t include lump sum payments made, only ongoing annual pension.

The data provided in this FOI response counts all members who are in receipt of an NHS Pension and includes both clinicians and non-clinicians.

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