Written Question·Home Office·UIN 51888

Police: Pensions

Tabled: 13 May 2025
Answered: 21 May 2025

Question

Suella Braverman

Reform UKFareham and Waterlooville

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an estimate of the number of police widows who lose access to their survivor's pension when they cohabit or remarry.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
The 2015 police pension scheme is the scheme currently open to serving police officers. This scheme provides life-long survivor benefits for spouses, civil partners and unmarried partners, including those who remarry or cohabit after losing a spouse. The ...

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