FOI/202400427803 · FOI · not held
Scottish Public Pensions Agency scheme statistics: FOI release
Information requested
Information in relation to the number of people signed up to a Scottish Public Pensions Agency scheme, and those who have chosen to opt-out or withdraw.
Could you tell me, in each of the past five years, how many people have withdrawn or opted out from the following profession (broken down by year)?:
i) Teachers ii) Police iii) NHS iv) fire service v) local government
Response
Table 1 below shows the number of members for whom an opt-out process has been completed each year. Members may have opted in voluntarily or through auto enrolment and then opted out again, so may be counted in multiple years.
Table 2 below shows a unique count of members over the entire time frame, i.e without the duplicates included in the year-level breakdown.
In both tables, members are counted more than once if they hold membership in more than one scheme. Breakdowns are given using calendar years. 2024 data is the part year up to 25 August 2024.
TABLE 1
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 TOTAL Firefighters 75 77 66 45 45 17 325 NHS 2,194 1,942 1,551 3,306 2,995 1,703 13,691 Police 347 350 361 299 430 262 2,049 Teachers 825 404 223 383 376 233 2,444
TABLE 2
Firefighters 304 NHS 12,262 Police 1,897 Teachers 2,131
The Local Government Pension Scheme in Scotland is a funded pension scheme, managed by 11 regional fund managers and therefore we do not hold member information for this scheme.
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