Question follow-through · 27962
Police: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to allow police survivors who (a) remarry and (b) cohabit after losing a spouse to retain their full pension entitlement.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 31 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 10 Feb 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
31 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to allow police survivors who (a) remarry and (b) cohabit after losing a spouse to retain their full pension entitlement.
4 Feb 2025
Target answer date
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10 Feb 2025
Answer published
With the introduction of the 2006 police pension scheme on 6 April 2006, all eligible police officers were able to join a pension scheme that provides life-long survivor benefits for spouses, civil partners and unmarried partners, including those who rema...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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