| Heading: |
Police: Pensions |
| Question ID: |
1809256 |
| UIN: |
57224 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-04 |
| Asking Member ID: |
3973 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Grahame Morris
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| Asking Member handle: |
grahamemorris
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@grahamemorris
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to amend the 1987 Police Pension Scheme to allow widowers of police officers to retain their survivor’s pension entitlement if they remarry or cohabit. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-09 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1533 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Dame Diana Johnson
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| Answering Member handle: |
DianaJohnsonMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@DianaJohnsonMP
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The 1987 police pension scheme provides a pension for the widow, widower or civil partner of a police officer who dies. In common with most other public service pension schemes of that time, these benefits cease to be payable where the widow, widower or c... |
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| Answering body ID: |
1 |
| Answering body name: |
Home Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |