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NHS Pensions

Volume 456: debated on Wednesday 7 February 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many staff work for the successor to the NHS Pensions Agency; and what its budget is for 2006-07. (117092)

The NHS Pensions Agency is now a division of the NHS Business Services Authority (NHS BSA).

The current baseline 2006-07 revenue budget for the pensions division is £22.3 million. This covers the administration costs and excludes payments made to and from the NHS pensions scheme as well as NHS student bursaries. There is an additional budget of £5 million identified for the pensions modernisation scheme expenditure.

The current staffing is 335 whole-time equivalents, which are staff employed by the NHS BSA. This excludes those staff employed by the main contractor who provides part of the service.