Freedom of Information Requests

My questions for clarification by each organisation under FOI are as follows:

1. Does acceptance of NHS Pension Option B preclude any entitlement to compulsory redundancy payment under employment law.  2. Does Section 16 Agenda for Change re redundancy, preclude entitlement to compulsory redundancy payment under employment law. 3. Has Employment Law been modified to theextent explained above by the application of the 2006 NHS Pensions Regulations. 4. Has Employment Law been modified to the extent explained above by the application of Section 16 NHS Agenda for change.  5. If any combination of the above four questions preclude compulsory redundancy payments under employment law please explain which ones, how and provide documentation/caselaw reference to illustrate this.

What percentage of a Grade D Staff Nurses salary was the Employers Contribution into the
Superannuation Scheme on the Nurse`s behalf in 1981/82.

1. What is the system for checking the accuracy of pension forecasts?
2. Could you supply me with audits or other examples of good governance?
3. Provide me with the details of the Head/CEO of the NHS Pensions Agency
4. The number of inaccurate forecasts NHSPA has provided over the last 15 years and any details of other quality control measures

1. For each financial year from 1977 to the present day I require a list of the total contributions paid by scheme members, the total contributions paid by members employers and the total amount of monies paid out to members of the NHS scheme
2.  I would also be grateful if you could explain why I was never informed that the amount of pension that I will receive can be altered by the Government without warning. 
3. What happens to any surplus that is made by the NHS pension scheme, i.e. is it kept to one side for lean years or given to the Treasury to spend on whatever it likes.

Please provide details of the types of pensions personnel documentation, which are or should be held by the NHS Pensions Agency. This requests a list of information about a current or previous NHS employee which would typically be held by the NHS Pensions Agency in relation to a current or previous NHS pension. Please provide a printed copy.

I wish to request, under the Freedom of Information Act, all information held by the NHS Pensions Agency relating to:

a) Conditions and status of NHS pensions and payments for all staff after cessation of employment
b) Conditions and status of NHS pensions and payments for all staff after acrimonious cessation of employment
c) Conditions and status of NHS pensions and payments for clinical staff after proceedings with regulatory bodies
d) Conditions under which NHS pensions and payments may be abandoned, ceased or otherwise disqualified or nullified

When appealing for ill health retirement tier 2 pension and permanent injury allowance, will the information be exchanged between the ill health pensions and the permanent injury benefits team, so as to influence the outcome of a decision? Or are they separate and therefore not used to influence the outcome of the other?

Why is there no increase to pension in this financial year?"

"Please email to me the internal telephone directory of "NHS Pensions."

Perhaps you could clarify where the pension contributions of all NHS staff are sent. furthermore if this data is not held - how are pensions now worked out in the NHS.

Please provide documentation and the policy related to the circumstances where a pension could be terminated in the 1970s.

I would like your data protection/retention policies for all the years between 1960 - 2010.

A) Please confirm whether members who subscribed to an NHS pension in the 1960s have their data secured by the NHS Pensions Agency. How long would this data be kept for?

B) Please provide the circumstances where data would be deleted for the above?

Please would you supply me with any information which you hold relating to complete NHS Pension regulations in force between 1979 and 1983 with numbers and dates that of any changes came into force during this period.

Please provide details of the amount of any Death Gratuity and any payment details that may be available in respect of the xxxxxxxxxx (deceased member)

Please supply Booklet R called Redundancy Retirements.

I would like to know the highest pension paid to any General Practitioner in pensions, net of lump sum.

I would be grateful if you could send me details of the average number of years service counting towards MHO status for all Clinical Psychologists who have retired in the last three years. I am also interested to hear if you keep records for Clinical Psychologists working within the Learning...

Under the Freedom of Information Act I require you to send me details of the number of years service counting towards MHO status for all Clinical Psychologists who have retired in the last ten years. In addition to this I would particularly like to know the figures for Clinical Psychologists working with People with a Learning Disability and Challenging Behaviour.

Please supply full terms and condition of the NHS additional pension scheme applicable to my employment.

Can you please confirm the number of people who have subscribed to additional pension scheme provision offered by the NHS?

I would be grateful for a copy of your (or general NHS) detailed guidance to PCTs on the handling of 24 hour retirement for Type 1 Medical Practitioners, setting out the factors which PCTs should consider before agreeing to re-employment and the evidence of actual retirement (eg withdrawal from any existing partnership agreements) which GPs must provide.

In the event of death, who can claim my pension and can I claim some of my pension when I am 50 years old ?

1. Please provide me the details of roles, responsibilities and accountabilities (separately for both NHSBSA & Employer trust) of NHSBSA and NHS Trust, in assessing, managing and providing Temporary Injury allowance to an employee?....

The total amount of contributions paid into the NHS Pension Scheme in respect of dentists, split between employees’ and employers' contributions.
The amount of pension contributions 'clawed back' from the NHS Pension Scheme in respect of dentists who underperform against their PDS / GDS contracts in terms of total UDAs delivered.

I wish to know the average life span from receipt of pension on retirement (usual retirement age 60/65) until end of receipt of pension due to death of recipient. If available I would like to know this for both genders and to cover the years from 1970 to date.

For a list of the identities of all those bodies which had been admitted under like provisions similar to those which our client enjoys by virtue of the direction made on 2 August 1992 entitled EA 9318 – Alternative Futures (381/216).....

Please confirm the NHS Pension increase for 2010/11.

Costs of reaching pension entitlement decision - To be provided with the information on how much the Pensions Agency has spent defending this case.

Request for projected pension details for 5 differing cases

How many people have successfully transferred their pension out of NHS pensions to a private provider since April 2007 ?

Details of the following (individual) doctors NHS pensions” You then named 5 doctors.

"Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act (2000), could you please provide me with the following information: The value of the NHS pension fund (audited or unaudited) at the end of the 2006-7 fiscal year. The value of the NHS pension fund (audited or unaudited) at the end of the 2007-8 fiscal year. The value of the NHS pension fund (audited or unaudited) at the end of the 2008-9 fiscal year."

I request your policy on the transfer of pensions delays.
In particular I wish to know the rationale behind processing pensions transfers and if any consideration of 1 year transfer in deadline is taken into account.

I request your policy on the transfer of pensions delays.
In particular I wish to know the rationale behind processing pensions transfers and if any consideration of 1 year transfer in deadline is taken into account.

The number of individuals, since the statute was enacted in 1995, who have had the recoupment provisions for loss of NHS earnings (to trial) or otherwise, applied not only to their employer, but also as proposed in Dr XXXX’s case, to additional defendants who were non-employing, non contributing bodies....

Is there a date that form SD86c have to given out by? They are always so much in arrears I want to know if there is a legal requirement date.

1.The precise way leaflets dated September 2007 and April 2008 were “given” to all NHS employees
2.What records do you have to show that all NHS employees received these leaflets?
3.What records do you have to show (a named individual) received these leaflets?
4.Let me know of any other ways that you distributed this important information relating to April 2008 NHS pension changes to members

1.How many completed declaration forms nominating partners for survivor pensions have been received by you as at 19th October 2008?
2.As at 19th October 2008, how many completed declaration forms nominating partners for survivor pensions had been received by you from employees of Dorset PCT employees
3.How to nominate a partner to receive my pension on my death

How many members are currently paying into the scheme and how many are receiving NHS pensions?

Regarding the NHS pension scheme, please can you tell me
1.the charges payable upon the implementation of a pension sharing order
2.when these are paid
3.how these are paid

Details of the following (individual named ) doctors NHS pensions

Please email me the rules and regulations of added years contract. Also please email me your complaint procedure and details to whom I should write a complaint.

For each of the following questions, please provide data separately for both the NHS Pension Scheme 1995 section and the NHS Pension Scheme 2008 section. For each of the 1995 section and the 2008 section, please provide data separately for both males and females...

Pensions pot valuations...

I am writing to request details of the NHS Pension Scheme in England and Wales.
For each of the following questions, please provide data separately for both the NHS Pension Scheme 1995 section and the NHS Pension Scheme 2008 section. For each of the 1995 section and the 2008 section, please provide data separately for both males and females....

1.Can I have all information on Ill-health retirement and what the criteria is to qualify e.g. Disability
2.Criteria within which your medical examiners will determine whether an NHS employee could qualify for Ill Health Retirement

Please email me the rules and regulations of added years contract. Also please email me your complaint procedure and details to whom I should write a complaint.

I would like to know under the Freedom of Information Act how many other cases there have been where there has been a dispute within the Pensions Agency over problems due to NI and SD numbers, and missing paperwork. I have indications of other similar situations.

what has gone wrong with the calculations or formula used for my pension - correspondence recently received informing me of a decrease in my pension.

information about the European Central Bank Interbank Rate.

The number of Ill health retirement applications.

The process by which decisions are made when a person may not be automatically entitled to MHO status and the form which is sent to determine the whole or substantially the whole of time spent in the treatment or care of persons suffering from mental disorders....

Retirement age
1. How many members of the pension scheme retired in the year 2008/09?
2. How many of those members retiring in 2008/09 were taking early retirement?
3. What is the average retirement age of the scheme's members?

What was the NHS pension fund growth for 2006,2007 and 2008

Details of the investments portfolio in which the scheme is placed

Why, when I know many retired NHS staff, were only a handful of us affected by the miscalculation? Those that were – retired at different times, at different ages and were from differing disciplines.

Since the rules were widened to include unmarried partners as potential beneficiaries under the NHS Pension Scheme (which I understand came into effect a year ago) how many claims have been made, how many claims have been successful and how many claims by unmarried partners have been turned down?

With regard to afc (agenda for change) and the payment of back pay:-
I am seeking direction where to find any guidance, policy legal precedence etc on how individual trusts should approach this matter in this specialised field of pensions.

Information regarding TIA and PIA, who should be sat on employers panels to make these decisions, should the applicant be invited to the meeting

Which stocks and shares the money is currently invested in and specifically are any of them either the Tobacco industry or Tobacco industry related.

I require information as to how many pension repayment orders were issued in 1976 and 2006.
Further how many such repayment orders were not cashed in the same two years.

Details of the contract drawn up with Citibank for the banking transfer of pensions to ex-patriots living in the Euro zone.

Please send me all information on tier 1 and 2 of NHS Pensions

GMP Queries...

Information on the rates of ill-health retirement applications for various broad group of medical conditions and the number of applications approved, deferred and rejected.

List of organisations who currently participate in the NHS Pension Scheme under a Direction granted under Section 7 of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967.

Given the current financial crisis with the banking system, I am wondering in which banks are pension contributions deposited?

Our Senior Partner would like to know what the national average full time superannuable income was for 2007-8, and your estimate for 2008-9 if you have one, please.

1. Are GP's who own their own Practice and employ staff kept regularly up to date with the NHS pension scheme and their responsibilities as employers? (If they were could I please have a copy of the communications sent if you have them).

you asked for the following information :-
1) The total number of applications for Direction Employer status received by the Department of Health to date.
2) The total number of applications which have been turned down to date and reasons for refusal in each case.

Regarding the NHS Pension Scheme and Temporary Injury Allowance (TIA).
1.The total number of applications for TIA for the period Jun05 –Jun 08
2.The number of applications for TIA that were declined at the first attempt for that same period
3.The number of appeals against unsuccessful TIA applications that failed for that period

ILL Health Regs no internet
•Information about the ill-health retirement regulations received up to 31st March 2008 and applications from 1st April 2008.
•In addition, you also asked for copies of the NHS Pension’s procedures for processing ill-health applications and included an extract obtained in 1997.

Details of the average age of retirement for members who are consultants within the NHS.

Anonomised data detailing the average age at which General Practitioners are starting to claim their General Practice occupational pension for the years 1996-2007.

Information regarding the NHS Pension Scheme and Ill Health Retirement. ideally for the years 2006 and or 2007 whichever ones we had available....

The numbers of people who have applied for Early Retirement through Ill-Health and how many were accepted....

I would like information sent to me regarding the way in which NHS temporary injury allowance and how it is calculated....

For information in relation to rejected direction applications under section 7 (2) of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions)Act 1967. details of all such direction applications that have been refused and copies of all letters/documents confirming the refusal and the basis upon which the refusal has been made....