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Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions

Asked by Alex BurghartConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 27 November 2024UIN 13804

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants (a) are members of the Alpha pension scheme, (b) are members of the Partnership pension scheme and (c) have opted out of both schemes.

Answered by Georgia Gould

As at 31 October 2024, there were 588,623 active members of the alpha pension scheme. As well as civil servants, the Civil Service Pension arrangements cover employees of certain non-Civil Service organisations, such as non-Departmental Public Bodies, if they meet the Cabinet Office policy on eligibility for entry and legislative requirements on funding.

As at 30 June 2024 there were 8,748 active members of the partnership scheme.

As at 31 October 2024, a total of 3,894 people had opted out and were not members of either pension scheme.

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