FOI-03218

Thank you for your request for information about the following: 

##Request 

<p><i>‘I would like you to state me that how many Injuries benefits applications (TIA/PIB) were received after 6 months from deadline (according to the 1995 NHS Injuries Benefits scheme) during the mentioned period and how many applications were forwarded to the medical advisors for consideration.’</i></p>

Date Range: 01/01/2000 – 28/09/2025 

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 28 September 2025.  

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). 

##Our response 

We have considered this request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (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.   

Please see the following calculations which sets out the estimated cost for compliance with this request: 

To locate how many Permanent Injury Benefit (PIB) applications were received after 6 months from the deadline, we would need to manually interrogate each scanned TIF file, of which there are 26,876 cases.  

We estimate it would take 5 minutes to locate the claimed permanent loss of earnings to date, and 5 minutes to locate the date the application was sent (10 minutes per case). 

26,876 x 5 minutes = 134,380 minutes (2,239 hours) 

Please note, once PIB applications had been identified, to locate how many applications were forwarded to the medical advisors for consideration we would also need to manually interrogate each scanned TIF file. The size of these files can vary drastically, and we estimate it would take an average of 30 minutes to manually interrogate each case. 

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, Permanent Injury Benefit
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