Request

1) The number of pension scheme members, split between those with Practitioner Membership and those without Practitioner Membership, where they have exceeded the standard annual allowance for each tax year from 2018/19 to 2021/22 (ie combined growth across all schemes is greater than £40,000).

2) How many members of the NHS Pension Scheme, split between those with Practitioner Membership and those without Practitioner Membership, have asked the scheme to pay for their annual allowance tax charge through the scheme using 'scheme pays' for each tax year from 2018/19 to 2021/22, and what was the total amount paid by the scheme through this arrangement in each of those years.

Request

A copy of the information is attached

Only noteworthy element is that members don’t have to use scheme pays if they exceed, and they don’t have to exceed to be able to use scheme pays, though this is reflective in the data.

Please note that this request and our response is published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-29907

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