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Freedom of Information

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires organisations to be more transparent and accountable to individuals about how they manage and control data.  The Privacy Notice on this website sets out how the Cheshire Pension Fund manages its members' data, including who it shares data with and for what purpose it might be used.

 

Cheshire West & Chester Council (The Data Controller) is the Administering Authority for the Cheshire Pension Fund.  The Fund holds personal information about individuals, so that it can provide the pension services to members and employers.

 

The Fund has a legal obligation and a statutory duty to provide individuals with certain information under a number of regulations, including;

 

  • The Pensions Act 2004

  • The Public Service Pensions Act 2013

  • The LGPS Regulations 2013

  • The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) Regulations 2013

  • The Pensions Act 2011 (Transitional, Consequential and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2014

  • The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) Amendment Regulations 2015

 

Under these statutory and regulatory requirements, the Fund has a legal requirement to provide individuals with the following:

 

  • Basic information to members on the LGPS on joining or upon request by other parties

  • Information to early leavers and those retiring from the LGPS

  • Information on request relating to transfers to and from the LGPS

  • Annual Benefit Statements to Active, Deferred, Deferred Pensioner and Pension Credit members of the LGPS no later than 31 August each year

  • Information regarding changes to the Regulations that govern the LGPS that may affect the calculation of a member's benefits.

 

The Fund may if it chooses, pass certain details to a third party, if that third party is carrying out an administrative function of the Fund, for example, the Fund's appointed Actuary. 

 

Pension Fund staff receive regular training on data protection issues.

 

By law, the Fund are also required in certain circumstances to share members' information with government organisations such as His Majesty's Revenue and Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions, so that they ensure that public funds are safeguarded.  Information may also be shared in the prevention and detection of fraud.

 

More information about how Cheshire West and Chester fulfils its Freedom of Information obligations can be found via this link:  Freedom of Information, Environmental Information Regulation and Subject Access Requests | Cheshire West and Chester Council

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