FOI/202300363701 · FOI · cost limit
NHS Superannuation Scheme - Opt outs: FOI release
Information requested
The number of individuals who opted out of the NHS Superannuation Scheme in each of the financial years of 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, and 2022/23 A breakdown of NHS Superannuation Scheme opt-outs by the reason stated for their leaving the scheme, for each financial year A breakdown of NHS Superannuation Scheme opt-outs by salary bands, for each financial year A breakdown of NHS Superannuation Scheme opt-outs by age group, for each financial year.
Response
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the costs of locating, retrieving and providing the information you have requested would exceed the upper cost limit of £600. Under section 12 of FOISA public authorities are not required to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying would exceed the upper cost limit, which is currently set at £600 by Regulations made under section 12.
We don't currently record on our system the reason(s) that a member has chosen to opt out of their scheme. To gather this data would require significant manual labour as each individual form would need to be reviewed. It is not mandatory for a member to submit their reason(s) for opt out so even if we carried out this exercise it's unlikely to be indicative of any trends.
Within our software system we don't currently have the ability to filter opt outs by salary band although we are able to provide the number of individuals who opted out of the NHS Superannuation Scheme in each of the financial years of 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, and 2022/23, broken down by age group. Please see this data in the table below.
Year Case Completed/Age Bracket 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 15-19 41 39 27 38 38 20-24 261 254 176 217 264 25-29 386 526 351 320 575 30-34 373 472 273 305 588 35-39 315 417 269 260 557 40-44 240 358 207 218 546 45-49 191 343 205 174 465 50-54 244 387 231 197 533 55-59 191 308 195 226 537 60-64 76 151 94 112 351 65-69 9 17 16 32 85 70-74 1 0 2 2 2 2328 3272 2046 2101 4541
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Detected exemption language
Under section 12 of FOISA public authorities are not required to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying would exceed the upper cost limit, which is currently set at £600 by Regulations made under section 12.
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