Police: Workplace Pensions
Commons · Question 1057 · Tabled 13 May 2026 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 18 May 2026
Question
Asked by Joshua Reynolds
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made a comparative assessment of the survivor pension rules in the Police Pension Scheme 1987 in England and Wales and the equivalent rules applying to (a) police officers i
Answer
Answered by Sarah Jones, 18 May 2026
The 1987 police pension scheme is now a closed scheme, superseded by the 2015 scheme, and there are no plans to make further improvements to the benefits accrued under it. From 1 April 2015, the 1987 police pension scheme was amended to allow widows, wido...