Question follow-through · 14547
Police: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the annual cost of allowing all surviving spouses, civil partners and partners receiving benefits under the Police Pension Scheme 1987 to retain those benefits
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 30 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 6 Jul 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the annual cost of allowing all surviving spouses, civil partners and partners receiving benefits under the Police Pension Scheme 1987 to retain those benefits
2 Jul 2026
Target answer date
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6 Jul 2026
Answer published
The most recent actuarial valuation of the police pension schemes in England and Wales as at 31 March 2020, shows that there are approximately 27,000 dependants in receipt of a pension. This figure includes dependants other than surviving partners and is ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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