FOI-03390

Thank you for your request for information about the following: 

##Request 

<p><i>‘Please provide me with the information for the applicants who applied for PIB (who applied after 6 months from the deadline according to the 1995 NHS Injuries Benefits scheme) and were considered by the NHSBSA.’</i></p> 

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 20 November 2025.  

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). 

##Our response

We have considered this request under the FOIA and are issuing a refusal notice under section 17 of the FOIA.  

The NHSBSA does hold the requested information; however, we estimate that the cost of compliance with the request would exceed the appropriate limit under section 12 of the FOIA.  

We estimate that the cost of complying with your request would exceed the non-central Government limit of £450. The limit has been specified in The Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004 and represents the estimated cost of one person spending 18 hours in determining whether the NHSBSA holds the information, and locating, retrieving, extracting and checking the information.   

Due to the way in which historical Injury Benefits are recorded we are unable to identify the received date of an application without manual interrogation of the injury benefit record. 

Therefore, we would need to manually interrogate 26,876 cases. We estimate it would take 5 minutes to manually interrogate each case. 

Please see the following calculations which sets out the estimated cost for compliance with this request: 

26,876 x 5 minutes = 134,380 minutes (2,239 hours) 

Please be advised that due to the way that the information is held by the NHSBSA, it is not possible to submit a refined request under the appropriate limit. 

Please see the following link to view the section 12 in full - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/12 

##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 

If you plan on producing a press or broadcast story based upon the data please contact <a href=mailto:communicationsteam@nhsbsa.nhs.uk>communicationsteam@nhsbsa.nhs.uk</a>. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented. 

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 2025”. 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. 

Tags: NHS Injuries Benefits Scheme, NHS Pensions, PIB
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log