Question follow-through · 52941
Police: Pensions
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
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 16 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 May 2025
- Answer
- 29 May 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 May 2025
Question tabled
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
20 May 2025
Target answer date
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29 May 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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