diff --git a/Framework/Indexing/inc/MantidIndexing/IndexInfo.h b/Framework/Indexing/inc/MantidIndexing/IndexInfo.h
index 59513b6182ee38ea3bc8a0b827e4dfcd61696cc4..b96a988ca0a99235f8c381acc52fbf0695404f16 100644
--- a/Framework/Indexing/inc/MantidIndexing/IndexInfo.h
+++ b/Framework/Indexing/inc/MantidIndexing/IndexInfo.h
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ class Communicator;
 }
 namespace Indexing {
 class GlobalSpectrumIndex;
-class RoundRobinPartitioner;
 class SpectrumIndexSet;
 class SpectrumNumberTranslator;
 
@@ -136,7 +135,6 @@ private:
       nullptr};
   mutable Kernel::cow_ptr<SpectrumNumberTranslator> m_spectrumNumberTranslator{
       nullptr};
-  mutable std::unique_ptr<RoundRobinPartitioner> m_partitioner;
 };
 
 } // namespace Indexing
diff --git a/Framework/Indexing/src/IndexInfo.cpp b/Framework/Indexing/src/IndexInfo.cpp
index ad0f012a809e3fc81b62ca44d2dfc9e9dea970b5..30e91a8dd85b0657a3b315ebbc79b51c53f8b37e 100644
--- a/Framework/Indexing/src/IndexInfo.cpp
+++ b/Framework/Indexing/src/IndexInfo.cpp
@@ -80,9 +80,7 @@ IndexInfo::IndexInfo(const IndexInfo &other)
       m_communicator(
           Kernel::make_unique<Parallel::Communicator>(*other.m_communicator)),
       m_spectrumDefinitions(other.m_spectrumDefinitions),
-      m_spectrumNumberTranslator(other.m_spectrumNumberTranslator),
-      m_partitioner(
-          Kernel::make_unique<RoundRobinPartitioner>(*other.m_partitioner)) {}
+      m_spectrumNumberTranslator(other.m_spectrumNumberTranslator) {}
 
 IndexInfo::IndexInfo(IndexInfo &&) = default;
 
@@ -309,11 +307,11 @@ void IndexInfo::makeSpectrumNumberTranslator(
     throw std::runtime_error("IndexInfo: unknown storage mode " +
                              Parallel::toString(m_storageMode));
   }
-  m_partitioner = Kernel::make_unique<RoundRobinPartitioner>(
+  auto partitioner = Kernel::make_unique<RoundRobinPartitioner>(
       numberOfPartitions, partition,
       Partitioner::MonitorStrategy::TreatAsNormalSpectrum);
   m_spectrumNumberTranslator = Kernel::make_cow<SpectrumNumberTranslator>(
-      std::move(spectrumNumbers), *m_partitioner, partition);
+      std::move(spectrumNumbers), *partitioner, partition);
 }
 
 template MANTID_INDEXING_DLL IndexInfo::IndexInfo(std::vector<SpectrumNumber>,