Written Question·Home Office·UIN 57224

Police: Pensions

Tabled: 4 June 2025

Answered: 9 June 2025

Named Day

Question

Grahame Morris

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.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson

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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