Question follow-through · 13804

Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions

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.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 12 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 14 Nov 2024
Answer: 27 Nov 2024 · 15 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

12 Nov 2024
Question tabled
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.
14 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Nov 2024
Answer published
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 ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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