FOI-02370

Thank you for your request for information about the following: 

##Request 

‘Kindly provide the following information: 

1. The number of “Bank” Scheme Members who have a period of live Scheme Membership (Scheme Member will be Part-Time with Contract Hours indicated 01/00) with a GP Practice that are ACTIVE @ 31/10/24 

2. The number of “Bank” Scheme Members who have a period of live Scheme Membership (Scheme Member will be Part-Time with Contract Hours indicated 01/00) with a Non-GP Practice Employer that are ACTIVE @ 31/10/24 

3. The number of “Bank” Scheme Members who retain more than one period of live Scheme Membership (i.e. "Dual Employments") with a GP Practice that are ACTIVE @ 31/10/24 

4. The number of “Bank” Scheme Members who retain more than one period of live Scheme Membership (i.e. "Dual Employments") with a Non-GP Practice Employer that are ACTIVE @ 31/10/24 

5. The number of Bank Scheme Members who have a period of live Scheme Membership (Scheme Member will be Part-Time with Contract Hours indicated 01/00) with a GP Practice Employer that is updated to 31st March 2024 including the Tiered (Employee) Contribution Rate reported on the 2023/2024 Year-End (SD55) Annual Update 

6. The number of Bank Scheme Members who have a period of live Scheme Membership (Scheme Member will be Part-Time with Contract Hours indicated 01/00) with a Non-GP Practice Employer that is updated to 31st March 2024 including the Tiered (Employee) Contribution Rate reported on the 2023/2024 Year-End (SD55) Annual Update 

Where I refer to GP Practices I can confirm this does not include staff employed by an OOHs (Out of Hours) Provider I can confirm this does not relate to GPs.’ 

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 6 November 2024.  

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000. 

##Our response 

I can confirm that the NHSBSA holds the information you have requested and a copy of the information is attached. 

Please read the below notes to ensure correct understanding of the data. 

Members may be employed by both GP Practices and Non-GP Practices concurrently; if so they will be counted in volumes for both sets of questions.  

Members may have non-bank employments concurrently, which may or may not be updated; these are not assessed for this FOI request.  

Members are included in questions 3 and 4 if they have multiple concurrent employments of the respective type; this may be with the same employing authority or a different employing authority.  

Employments commencing on or after 01 April 2024 are not assessed for questions 5 and 6, as they cannot be updated to 31 March 2024.  

Members may have additional non-updated posts (for GP Practices and Non-GP Practices, as well as non-Bank posts) and still be included in the volumes for questions 5 and 6, if at least one of the respective types of post is updated. 

For question 6 there are 8 members that do not fit the standard rates. We have included these 8 members for transparency; however, we currently have queries raised with the respective employers as the contributions do not appear to the expected contribution rate payable for employees of this job role. 

##Definitions 

Active Scheme Member – Member was contributing to the pension scheme as of 31 October 2024.  

Out of Hours provider – An Employing Authority which provides GP out of hours cover outside of normal practice hours. 

##Data Queries 

If you have any queries regarding the data provided, or if you plan on publishing, the data please contact foidata@nhsbsa.nhs.uk ensuring you quote the above reference. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented. 

##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 2024” 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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