FOI-03670

Thank you for your request for information about the following: 

##Request 

<p><i>‘Please provide the following information for the period 1st April 2025 to 28th February 2026 inclusive.</i></p>

<p><i>1. The number of retirement benefit applications with a retirement date during the above period which included 1995 scheme benefits by type (i.e, Age, Partial Ill-Health etc)</i></p>

<p><i>2. The number of retirements where the employer provided the pensionable pay amount to be used in the calculation of the 1995 retirement benefits prior to the initial calculation and issue of the Notification of Award</i></p>

<p><i>3. The number of retirements where the employer provided the pensionable pay amount to be used in the calculation of the 1995 retirement benefits subsequebnt to the initial calculation and issue of the Notification of Award</i></p>

<p><i>4. The number of retirements where the employer did not provide provided the pensionable pay amount to be used in the calculation of the 1995 retirement benefits’</i></p>

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 10 March 2026.  

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). 

##Our response 

I can confirm that the NHSBSA holds the information you have requested.

Please read the below notes to ensure correct understanding of the data. The answers to each question follow the below notes. 

The data used has been restricted to 1995 Section members only. 

Members may appear more than once in the dataset if they have submitted multiple applications, resulting in possible duplication. 

Applications included within the specified period have been identified using the PAYDATE field as the determining factor.  PAYDATE being the date the payment is due into the members account. 

For Question 1, all AW8 volumes have been categorised by Award Type, and a translation of the award type has been provided. 

Question 2 reflects cases in which the initial flag “EmployerProvidedPrior” is set to ‘Y’. 

Question 3 reflects cases in which “EmployerProvidedPrior” is set to ‘N’ and “EmployerProvidedAfter” is set to ‘Y’. 

Question 4 reflects cases in which both flags are set to ‘N’ 

##Question 1 - The number of retirement benefit applications with a retirement date during the above period which included 1995 scheme benefits by type (i.e, Age, Partial Ill-Health etc) 

Award Type 

1. Age - 12,412 

2. Ill Health - 657 

3. Redundancy - 45 

4. ARER (Actuarially reduced early retirement) - 3,735 

6. SIHILS (Serious ill health lump sum) - 93 

E. 1st Partial Retirement - 13,900 

F - 2nd Partial Retirement - 42 

Total – 30,884 

##Question 2 - The number of retirements where the employer provided the pensionable pay amount to be used in the calculation of the 1995 retirement benefits prior to the initial calculation and issue of the Notification of Award 

1,830 

##Question 3 - The number of retirements where the employer provided the pensionable pay amount to be used in the calculation of the 1995 retirement benefits subsequebnt to the initial calculation and issue of the Notification of Award 

11 

##Question 4 - The number of retirements where the employer did not provide provided the pensionable pay amount to be used in the calculation of the 1995 retirement benefits 

28,899 

##Data Queries 

Please contact <a href=mailto:foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk>foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk</a> ensuring you quote the above reference if you have any specific questions regarding this response; or, if you feel you may be misunderstanding or misinterpreting the information; or, if you plan on publishing the data. 

##Reusing the data and copyright 

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The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and is subject to NHSBSA copyright. This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence detailed at: 

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/  

Should you wish to re-use the information you must include the following statement: “NHSBSA Copyright 2026”. Failure to do so is a breach of the terms of the licence. 

Information you receive which is not subject to NHSBSA Copyright continues to be protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information originated. Please obtain their permission before reproducing any third party (non NHSBSA Copyright) information.

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