Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to reduce the incidents of official error leading to overpayment by the NHS Pension Scheme.

The National Health Service Pension Scheme is administered by the NHS Business Services Authority. The Authority is improving its quality assurance processes and investing in additional staff training to reduce the risk of errors leading to overpayments by the National Health Service Pension Scheme.

Progress in their quality assurance process improvements is overseen by the NHS Pension Board, a statutory board set up under the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 and responsible for overseeing scheme governance and administration, by the Department through Service Level Agreement reviews with the Authority and by the Pension Regulator through its annual survey of pension scheme governance.