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<p>The Department for Education does not hold the specific data requested. However,
the scheme administrator for the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) holds data on the
number of individuals who have participated in the scheme in the past but are now
deferred (have ceased to be in pensionable service but have not yet accessed benefits).</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>While the TPS data includes teachers whose last recorded service
was in a publicly funded school in England, it also covers those whose last service
was in Wales or in other establishments covered by the Scheme (for example further
and higher education establishments). I have asked the TPS administrator to provide
a breakdown of the data on deferred members that excludes those whose last service
was in Wales, or in a non-publicly-funded school sector establishment, or where the
member reached their normal pension age by 2012, and will place a copy of the final
results in the library of the House.</p><p> </p>
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