Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many officials are employed to administer pensions.

All DWP colleagues employed within our Retirement Services Directorate equate to 6,460 FTE (full time equivalent) resource as of 31^st December 2022. This takes into account all grades working within the Retirement Services Directorate.

Notes:

• Data is correct as of 31^st December 2022.

• Figures for Retirement Services were derived from the Department’s Activity Based Model (ABM), which provides Full Time Equivalent (FTE) figures of colleagues employed within this directorate based on point in time estimate by Line Managers.

• The Full Time Equivalent (FTE) figures has been rounded off to the nearest 10.

• The number of colleagues employed in these directorates is unpublished management information, collected and intended for internal departmental use and has not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard. As the Department holds the information, we have released it.

• Full Time Equivalent (FTE) figures only included colleagues employed by DWP only and does not include any external outsourced employees.