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Scottish Public Pensions Agency (SPPA) customer service performance levels: FOI release

Published
2025-11-11
Received
2025-08-15
Responded
2025-09-03
Directorate
Topic
Public sector
Exemptions
3, 4

Information requested

Please include the following information for the financial years 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25:

1. The average call wait times for your customer service phone lines are each year.

2. The percentage of calls answered within your target time for each of those years.

3. The average response time for written correspondence (email, letter, or online submissions) in each of those years.

4. The percentage of correspondence responded to within the organisation’s target timeframe in each year.

5. The number of formal complaints received relating to delays, unanswered calls, or poor customer service, broken down by year.

6. If held, the department’s official service level targets for customer interaction (e.g., target wait time, target response time) and whether those targets were met in each year.

Response

1. 2021/22 - 05m22s

2022/23 - 03m18s

2023/24 - 02m29s

2024/25 - 02m36s

2. Target times have not been defined.

3. Average email response times are below, up to December 2024, at which point a change to webforms reduced reporting ability:

2021/22 - 1d19h

2022/23 - 3d22h

2023/24 - 5d4h

2024/25 - 6d13h

4. Target times have not been defined.

5.

Stage 1 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 Contact Experience 8 9 9 31 Response Time 61 82 92 65 Standard of Service 71 101 159 100 Stage 2 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 Contact Experience 0 0 0 1 Response Time 3 2 3 4 Standard of Service 11 16 17 10 Executive Correspondence 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 Contact Experience 0 0 2 1 Response Time 0 3 2 1 Standard of Service 2 3 7 0

6. Target times have not been defined.

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