FOI reference - FOI-212
Date - 11 January 2024
Request
The data we believe we are seeking is “The total number of staff employed on your duties start date or staging date” which is provided by funds to the TPR in their declaration. It would be also helpful if you could provide LGPS aggregated totals on: “The total number of staff you had put into a pension scheme” and “the number of staff who were already members of a pension scheme (on your duties start date or staging date)”. We’ve concentrated on the declaration of compliance but there may different data collected which we are not aware of.
To reconfirm, we would only expect data on a LGPS aggregated basis only, we wouldn’t expect (or require) any data to be shared at individual employer level. Ultimately, we are interested in the scheme-level picture of the LGPS and the number of employees eligible who have chosen not to join the LGPS and would welcome TPR’s assistance in obtaining this data.
Response
We have carried out some analysis based on the initial declarations of compliance submitted by employers who have told us that they have automatically enrolled eligible jobholders into a LGPS scheme to the end of January 2024.
- The total number of staff employed on your duties start date or staging date - 3,106,000
- The total number of staff you had put into a pension scheme - 221,000
- The number of staff who were already members of a pension scheme (on your duties start date or staging date) - 2,249,000
Please note the following caveats to the information above.
- We have no way of knowing whether the employers who have declared that they have used a LGPS scheme for AE also use other pension schemes for other parts of their workforce.
- Nor do we know that a LGPS scheme was used to contractually enrol the membership in point 3.