Written Question·Home Office·UIN 52941

Police: Pensions

Tabled: 16 May 2025
Answered: 29 May 2025

Question

Richard Tice

Reform UKBoston and Skegness

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of Regulation C9 of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 that removes survivor benefits on (a) widows and (b) widowers who (i) rem

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
From 1 April 2015, the 1987 police pension scheme was amended to allow widows, widowers and civil partners of police officers who have died as a result of an injury on duty to receive their survivor benefits for life regardless of remarriage, civil partne...

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