Question follow-through · 53453

Police: Workplace Pensions

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.

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Home Office
Tabled
20 May 2025
Target answer date
2 Jun 2025
Answer
2 Jun 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 20 May 2025

    Question tabled

    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.

  2. 2 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 2 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    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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