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<p>This consultation closed on 31 July and my officials are now considering the responses
received. The proposal was to grant further education corporations, sixth form college
corporations and higher education corporations in England the flexibility to decide
whether to offer the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) to all or some eligible
new employees. These are independent, autonomous institutions and any alternative
pension arrangements which they may offer would be determined by them through the
appropriate industrial relations machinery.</p><p>The Department is considering responses
to the consultation and a response will be published in due course.</p><p>My Department
does not collect the demographic and income data requested. However the Higher Education
Statistics Agency (HESA) does gather data on higher education staff - <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hesa.ac.uk%2Fdata-and-analysis%2Fstaff&data=02%7C01%7CCon.Hargrave%40communities.gov.uk%7C22939f097a1046776be308d714271c1f%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637000030514537362&sdata=%2BFN2esFx65BSNPZcpfkXzczBXiGX8JmpbiHSWF6qgcY%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/staff</a> - and data on the
further education workforce is available through the Education and Training Foundation
(ETF) - <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.et-foundation.co.uk%2Fresearch%2Fworkforce-data%2F&data=02%7C01%7CCon.Hargrave%40communities.gov.uk%7C22939f097a1046776be308d714271c1f%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637000030514547354&sdata=1P%2FmIfL8VVuvrm%2Fh88f5Rge4QY5jh4ZxAAu6TWWjzy0%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">https://www.et-foundation.co.uk/research/workforce-data/</a> . Further
detailed information, for further education college staff only, is available from
the results of the College Staff Survey published last year: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fcollege-staff-survey-2018&data=02%7C01%7CCon.Hargrave%40communities.gov.uk%7C22939f097a1046776be308d714271c1f%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637000030514557350&sdata=1PCt5z%2Bv0abLnU93fQbdG%2Focds68GmjiiB%2ByW6lQPZY%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/college-staff-survey-2018</a>.</p>
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