Written question asked by Nigel Waterson (Conservative) on Thursday, 9 June 2005, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 13 June 2005. It was answered by Stephen Timms (Labour) on Thursday, 16 June 2005 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.

Occupational Pensions Regulatory Agency

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many staff were employed by the Occupational Pensions Regulatory Agency in each of the last five years of its existence, broken down by grade; how many of the staff employed by the agency on 5 April are now employed by the Pensions Regulator, broken down by grade; and how many new staff have been employed by the Pensions Regulator since 6 April, broken down by grade.

Answer

The information requested is contained in the following tables. The information has been supplied by the Pensions Regulator.

Staff employed by OPRA in each of the last five years of its existence (by grade) 1
Grade	31 March 2001	31 March 2002	31 March 2003	31 March 2004	31 March 2005
1	7	8	6	5	3
2	39	51	43	37	31
3	10	11	12	9	0
4	6	4	5	8	18
5	14	19	26	31	41
6	1	0	0	0	0
7	3	7	9	4	0
8	4	6	8	13	19
9	31	34	37	51	48
10	9	11	10	11	0
11	8	8	7	11	35
12	6	9	14	12	14
13	9	10	11	8	1
14	3	3	3	7	15
15	1	1	2	1	2
16	2	2	3	0	0
17	1	1	1	0	0
Directors	0	0	0	5	5
CEO	1	1	1	1	1
Chairman	1	1	1	1	1
Total Brighton	156	787	199	215	234

AA	23	21	18	14	5
AO	31	31	28	25	18
EO	7	6	9	7	7
HEO	3	4	4	5	4
SEO	1	1	1	1	1
Total Newcastle	65	63	60	52	35

Grand total	221	250	259	267	269
⁽²²⁾ Grade 1 is the lowest

Staff employed on 5 April 2005 who are now employed by the Pensions Regulator
Grade	Staff
1	2
2	29
3	0
4	18
5	36
6	0
7	0
8	18
9	47
10	0
11	30
12	13
13	1
14	14
15	2
16	0
17	0
Directors	5
CEO	1
Chairman	1
Total	217

New staff employed by the Pensions Regulator (6 April 2005 to 10 June 2005)
Grade	Staff
1	0
2	1
3	0
4	1
5	0
6	0
7	0
8	1
9	0
10	0
11	0
12	1
13	0
14	0
15	0
16	0
17	0
Directors	0
Executives	2
CEO	0
Chairman	0
Total	6

Secondary information