Thank you for your request for information about the following:

Kindly provide the following information:

1. The number of unique GP Practice Employers with at least one ACTIVE officer member @ 31st May 2023
2. The number of Scheme Members (Officer Status so not Practitioners) employed by a GP Practice that were ACTIVE @ 31st May 2023
3. The number of Scheme Members (Officer Status so not Practitioners) employed by a GP Practice that were not updated to 31/03/23 @ 31st May 2023
4. The number of Scheme Members (Officer Status so not Practitioners) where you could not update the individual pension record and where the error is now "Employer Owned" the GP Practice when submitting their data for Year-End 31/03/23
5. Please provide a breakdown of the total number of Employer Owned Errors where the error is now "Employer Owned" the GP Practice @ 31st May 2023 The above information will include, Annual Updates, Joiners, leavers etc Kindly provide your response in the same format as FOI 27681’

Your request was received on 21 June 2023 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Response

Please note:

Member records are administered both by individual employers and the NHS Business Services Authority. Some records will also be awaiting information from the General practitioner themselves.

Records are updated sequentially so there will be some gaps where the information is known for the year in question but it cannot be uploaded onto the system due to missing data for previous years.

The data provided in this FOI response counts all members and includes both clinicians and non-clinicians.

Question 1

The number of GP practices with at least one active officer member is 6,440.

Question 2

The number of officers currently employed by a GP practice is 150,751.

Question 3

The number of officers currently employed by a GP practice, where that specific GP Practice post is not updated to 31/03/2023 is 36,340. This obviously only looks at posts which commenced prior to 01/04/2022.

Question 4

The number of officers, currently employed with a GP Practice, where that specific GP Practice post is not updated to 31/03/2023, AND who also have an employer owned error on record (for the GP Practice they are currently employed with) is 1,423. The contents of the error, or year it relates to, are unknown, therefore it is impossible to identify if this error is a year end update we have been unable to process for various reasons.

Question 5

A copy of the information is attached. The table shows a breakdown of all employer owned errors for GP practices. This includes for non-active members. There is no way to identify the year the error relates to.

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