Request

Can I please have a copy of your Internal policy and/or Operating Procedure and supporting Equality Impact Assessment (or whatever you might call the assessment, which would assess the application of a Policy or Procedure against impact towards a Protected Characteristic, as defined by the Equality Act) which details how and when a Tier 2 calculation is made following the recommendation of your independent medical examiner

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 at:

The National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 1995 (Part E)

The National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 2008 (Chapter 3D)

The National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 2015 (Part 5, Chapter 5)

The following link provides scheme regulations that may also assist in your request.

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/information-about-nhs-pensions/nhs-pension-scheme-regulations

The consolidated regulations are shown for the 1995, 2008 and 2015 schemes at the bottom of the webpage.

Please see the following link to view the section 21 in full - Freedom of Information Act 2000 (legislation.gov.uk) NHS Pension policy is determined by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and an Equality Impact Assessment for the policy will have been completed by them. This information is not held by the NHSBSA.

You can contact the DHSC in the following ways:

Department of Health & Social Care Ministerial Correspondence and Public Enquiries Unit Department of Health and Social Care 39 Victoria Street London SW1H 0EU United Kingdom

Telephone: 0300 790 4007 Web: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-health-and-social-care

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-02342