Police: Pensions
Commons · Question 57224 · Tabled 4 Jun 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Grahame Morris
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to amend the 1987 Police Pension Scheme to allow widowers of police officers to retain their survivor’s pension entitlement if they remarry or cohabit.
Answer
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 9 Jun 2025
The 1987 police pension scheme provides a pension for the widow, widower or civil partner of a police officer who dies. In common with most other public service pension schemes of that time, these benefits cease to be payable where the widow, widower or c...