Notlangley
No need to apologise! I am always happy to be corrected if I say something not correct. However the figure of 10,800 as membership of BASSA was taken at the end of November 2009, so it may (or indeed may not) include those that left under VR terms in that month. The BASSA on-site counter gave the impression of being an automatic update, amended almost daily, but hearing from ex-members who still get mailings, one wonders just how "automatic it was. I wonder just how the ERS will actually verify the membership.