Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 72806

State Retirement Pensions: Ambulance services

Tabled: 29 August 2025

Answered: 4 September 2025

Question

Rachel Taylor

Labour — North Warwickshire and Bedworth

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to reduce the pension age for ambulance workers to meet the pension age for (a) police and (b) fire service employees.

Answer

Karin Smyth

There are no plans at present to equalise the normal pension ages (NPAs) of all emergency services workforces.NHS Pension Scheme members do not have to work to the scheme’s NPA to claim their retirement benefits. Flexible retirement options enable members...

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