Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many complaints by nurses that their 01 special class status capacity code has been removed from their pension records the NHS Business Services Authority is handling.

The NHS Business Services Authority administers the NHS Pension Scheme, and allocates capacity codes for different employment groups for recording purposes.

The NHS Business Services Authority has confirmed that the requested information is not readily available. In order to obtain the requested information, the NHS Business Services Authority would need to manually interrogate all records for members whose employment type includes nurses, then identify those who were afforded Special Class Status. The NHS Business Services Authority would then need to identify members who are no longer afforded Special Class Status and who have made a complaint.