Written Question·Home Office·UIN 53453

Police: Workplace Pensions

Tabled: 20 May 2025
Answered: 2 June 2025
Named Day

Question

Sir Julian Lewis

ConservativeNew Forest East

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on the (a) removal and (b) retention of police widows pensions when those in receipt of such pensions (i) cohabit and (ii) 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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