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NHS: Early Retirement

Volume 504: debated on Monday 18 January 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how much each (a) primary care trust, (b) hospital trust and (c) mental health trust spent on early retirement for members of the trust board in each of the last three years; (310797)

(2) how much each (a) primary care trust, (b) hospital trust and (c) mental health trust spent on early retirement for staff employed by the organisation in each of the last three years.

The information requested is not available in the form requested. The total premature retirement costs including the cost of paying pensions and lump sum early, enhancements of lump sum and enhanced service after normal retirement age are set out in the following table.

£000

Premature retirement costs

Prefunded (one-off capitalised costs)

Quarterly recharge

2006-07

162,578

64,742

2007-08

198,567

62,732

2008-09

73,755

50,164

Source:

NHS Pension Scheme and NHS Compensation for Premature Retirement Scheme Resource Accounts.