Exit payments

FOI reference - FOI-463

Date - 6 April 2026

Request

Please could you confirm if you abide by the following guidance:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/62f0d603e90e071439a1089a/Guidance_on_Public_Sector_Exit_Payments_27.7.22.pdf

Please could you confirm, for the 25/26 and previous 3 financial years, the following information:

Number of staff leavers
Number of Exits and Special Severance Proposals and/or Confidential Exit Proposals offered to staff.
Number of Exits and Special Severance Payments and/or Confidential Exit Payments accepted by and paid to staff.
Total paid to staff.
If possible, please could you confirm the type of each proposals and payments. As set out in the Types of Payments section (2.7 to 2.12, pages 4 to 5) in the above guidance or your own internal type definitions.

Response

I confirm that we hold the information you have requested. However, some of the information you have requested is exempt from disclosure.

Information we are able to provide

I can confirm TPR does abide by the guidance quoted in your request above.

With regards to questions 1) 2) 3) 4) and 5) please see information we are able to disclose in the table below. Where we are unable to disclose the information due to an exemption, we have clearly indicated this and explained why in the explanation of exemptions section below.

Table of disclosable data

	2025/26	2024/25	2023/24	2022/23
	Financial Year
1. Number of staff leavers (note 1)	80	99	105	89
2. Number of Exits and Special Severance Proposals and/or Confidential Exit Proposals (note 2) offered to staff	8	0	Exempt under section 40	4
3. Number of Exits (note 3) and Special Severance Payments and/or Confidential Exit Payments accepted by and paid to staff	Exempt under section 22	0	Exempt under section 40	Exempt under section 21
4. Total paid to staff	Exempt under section 22	0	Exempt under section 21	Exempt under section 21
5. Type of each proposals and payments	2.9. b) Contractual redundancy payments, whether applicable to voluntary or compulsory redundancy, and whether agreed by collective agreement or otherwise;	N/A	2.9. b) Contractual redundancy payments, whether applicable to voluntary or compulsory redundancy, and whether agreed by collective agreement or otherwise;	2.9. b) Contractual redundancy payments, whether applicable to voluntary or compulsory redundancy, and whether agreed by collective agreement or otherwise;

Notes for the disclosable data table

Note 1The number of leavers is calculated based on the number of permanent staff who have left TPR, either due to resignation, retirement, redundancy or dismissal.
Note 2We have defined a proposal as a written document, detailing the exit payment being offered, that is presented to the employee for signature, to confirm their acceptance.
Note 3We have interpreted the question to relate to Public Sector Exits, as defined in the Guidance on Public Sector Exits document, from the link provided in your request: Guidance_on_Public_Sector_Exit_Payments_27.7.22.pdf.

Explanation of exemptions

Section 21 – Information accessible to applicant by other means

The relevant information in table 1 is exempt from disclosure under Section 21 of the FoIA (footnote 1). This is because the information is accessible to you in our annual report and accounts published here: https://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/document-library/corporate-information/annual-reports

Section 22 – information intended for future publication

Certain information falling into the scope of your request is exempt from disclosure under section 22 of the FoIA (footnote 2). This is because the information is intended for publication at a future date. Specifically, the information will be published in the 2025/26 Annual Report and Accounts.

Section 22 is a qualified exemption requiring TPR to consider the public interest in disclosure and balance this against maintaining the exemption.

We recognise there is public interest in the promotion of transparency, accountability and the enhancement of understanding of our work. This is why we already publish certain information relating to corporate functions which we consider to be in the wider public interest or in line with our obligations as a public body.

Balanced against the interests outlined above we have considered that publication of this information will take place within the next few weeks, the importance that the necessary checks for accuracy and completed prior to publication and the importance of the information being released at the same time as other financial accounts.

Having considered the information above, our decision is to maintain the exemption and withhold the information.

Section 40 – Personal information

This information is exempt from disclosure under section 40 of the FoIA (footnote 3). This is because the information constitutes personal data as defined in the UK General Data Protection Regulations (UK GDPR). Disclosing this would not comply with the data protection principles set out in the UK GDPR, in particular the requirement for processing to be fair, lawful and transparent (Article 5 (1)(a)) (footnote 4), as well as to comply with one of the lawful bases for processing in Article 6 (footnote 5).

While the exemption is absolute, we have considered if there is a public interest in disclosure. In this instance, taking into account the information already available in the Annual Report and Accounts for the relevant financial year, we do not consider that to be an interest which outweighs the right to any individuals.