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227908

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the debate on police widows pensions of 25 February, Official Report, columns 126-133WH, what steps she is taking to ensure all police widowers receive life-long pensions.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	227749
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>The Chancellor announced in the Budget on 18 March that the Government will ensure that all widows, widowers and civil partners of police officers and firefighters who are killed on duty will no longer lose their survivor benefits if they remarry, cohabit, or form a civil partnership.</p><p>The Home Office and Department for Communities and Local Government will set out further details in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 19/03/2015 15:56:33 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

385063

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will issue guidance on the definition of on duty with regard to police officers' widows and widowers pensions.
	tabling member constituency	Workington
	tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
	uin	3880
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p>In the Budget on 18 March, the Chancellor announced that widows, widowers and surviving civil partners of police officers who have died on duty in England and Wales will no longer lose their survivors’ benefits in future if they remarry, form a civil partnership or cohabit. These pensions will not be re-instated for those who have already lost them through remarriage or cohabitation, though current rules already allow re-instatement if the 'new' relationship ends.</p><p>Changes will be limited to those deaths which have occurred whilst on duty. The Home Office will consult the Police Advisory Board for England and Wales (PABEW) shortly on proposals to implement this change and this will include the definition of “on duty”.</p><p>As policing is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland and Scotland, the Northern Ireland Executive and Scottish Government respectively are responsible for the design and funding of police pensions in those parts of the United Kingdom. The Government has a continuous duty to ensure that public service pensions are affordable, sustainable and fair, both for the members of those schemes and for other taxpayers.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 3881 3882 question first answered 30/06/2015 13:54:17 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 9772 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

224477

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that police officers have information on the amount of pension they would receive under a new pension scheme before they are required to make a decision on their participation in such a scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Helen Jones
	uin	225832
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2015 answer text <p>The 2015 Police Pension Regulations will be laid before Parliament today<br>to allow the new pension scheme for Police Officers to come into force on 1 <br>April. The Home Office has published guidance for members of the scheme <br>alongside side this which is available at: <br>https://www.gov.uk/police-pension-reform<br><br>Information about the principles of the reforms has been in the public domain <br>for some time. This includes: the Reform Design Framework which was published <br>on the Home Office Website in September 2012; an online calculator which allows <br>officers to determine what benefits they might receive under the new <br>arrangements; and guidance that specifies which officers qualify for <br>transitional protection.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 05/03/2015 16:03:56 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

224748

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, at what age police officers will be able to draw their pensions under her Department's proposed new pension scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Helen Jones
	uin	226125
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2015 answer text <p>Police officers will be able to retire with a pension from age 60 under the <br>2015 Police Pension Regulations. They will also have flexibility to be able to <br>retire early with a reduced pension from age 55. Police officers will continue <br>to retire earlier than most public servants.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 06/03/2015 14:06:07 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

348530

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to allow widows and widowers of police officers who died as serving officers to keep their full pension entitlements when remarrying; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
	tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
	uin	1218
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government announced at the Budget on 18 March 2015, that we will allow widows, widowers and surviving civil partners of police officers who have died on duty to keep their survivor’s benefits if they remarry, form a civil partnership or cohabit. This will not apply to all survivors in the 1987 Police Pension Scheme. The Home Office will consult the Police Advisory Board for England and Wales shortly on proposals to implement this change.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 09/06/2015 13:32:08 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

349564

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to allow widows and widowers of police officers who died after retirement from the police service to keep their pensions if they re-marry.
	tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
	tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
	uin	2070
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p>In the Budget on 18 March 2015, the Government announced its intention is to allow widows, widowers and surviving civil partners of police officers who have died on duty and were members of the 1987 Police Pension Scheme to keep their survivor’s benefits if they remarry, form a civil partnership or cohabit. There are no plans for this change to apply to widows and widowers of police officers who have died after retirement.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 16/06/2015 14:58:23 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

225221

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when full details of the new police pension scheme CARE 2015 were communicated to serving police officers.
	tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent South
	tabling member printed	Robert Flello
	uin	226285
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The 2015 Police Pension Regulations were laid before Parliament on Thursday 5 <br>March to allow the new pension scheme for police officers to come into force on <br>1 April. The Home Office is publishing guidance for members of the scheme <br>alongside this which is available at:<br>https://www.gov.uk/police-pension-reform<br><br>Information about the principles of the reforms has been in the public domain <br>for some time. This includes: the Reform Design Framework which was published <br>on the Home Office Website in September 2012; an online calculator which allows <br>officers to determine what benefits they might receive under the new <br>arrangements; and guidance that specifies which officers qualify for <br>transitional protection.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 09/03/2015 15:25:33 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1569 label Biography information for Robert Flello

348319

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the determination of 15 May 2015 of the Pensions Ombudsman with respect to the complaint by Mr W Milne against the Government Actuary's Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that other members of relevant pension schemes in the Police Service receive compensation awards consistent with that determination; and when she anticipates those awards will be made.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	987
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government accepts the Ombudsman’s determination in full and recognises that there are other individuals, including retired police officers, who are affected by the principles set out in this determination. The Government is working with pension administrators to identify affected individuals and ensure that appropriate payments are made as quickly as possible. This will take time, with thousands of historic records to consider. Those affected will receive updates through their pensions administrators.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 09/06/2015 11:52:29 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

228207

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding her Department provided in police pension top-up grants to each police force in England and Wales in each year since 2006-07.
	tabling member constituency	Peterborough
	tabling member printed	Mr Stewart Jackson
	uin	228167
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>Police pensions are funded by each police force paying employer and officer contributions into a separate account. These funds are then used to pay current police pensions.<br><br>Where the income into the police force’s pensions account is not sufficient to meet the cash cost of pensions being paid to retired officers, this is topped up by Home Office grant. <br><br>A breakdown across all forces is not available immediately. However, in total* the Home Office has provided the following top-up funding as follows:<br><br>• 2006/07 - £291million<br>• 2007/08 - £352million<br>• 2008/09 - £630million<br>• 2009/10 - £639 million<br>• 2010/11 - £721 million<br>• 2011/12 - £1,064 million<br>• 2012/13 - £1,218 million<br>• 2013/14 - £1,291million**<br>• 2014/15 - £1,441million***<br><br>* The total figure includes funding for all 43 forces in England and Wales as well as other bodies such as Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary.<br><br>** The figure for 2013/14 is based on police authorities' unaudited data only at this stage, and payment of the balance in respect of 2013/14 is yet to be made; the figure provided is the total expected grant requirement once the balance of payment in arrears has been made.<br><br>*** Forecast</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 24/03/2015 15:24:56 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 51782 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

156012

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with (a) the Northern Ireland Assembly and (b) the Scottish Government regarding reinstatement of pension rights for police widows and widowers.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Cathy Jamieson
	uin	214747
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2014 answer text <p>The police pension schemes in Scotland and Northern Ireland are a matter for the Scottish Government and the Northern Ireland Assembly respectively.<br><br>Government has a general presumption against making this type of change to pensions and we do not consider that there are other workforces that are generally comparable to the UK Armed Forces. However, Ministers must be able to exercise discretion where there are compelling and clear arguments.<br><br>The special circumstances of our military personnel, including the level of risk that they face and the disruption to family life provide a unique set of circumstances, which are further bolstered by the Armed Forces Covenant. We believe these merit a move away, in the specific instance of the Armed Forces, from Government’s general presumption against making retrospective changes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 214748 question first answered 20/11/2014 15:11:33 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson