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1692378

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2024
	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 he will make (a) a comparative estimate of what the average projected pension of a police officer who retired in each year from 2015 to 2023 would have been before the introduction of the McCloud remedy and associated public service pension changes and (b) an estimate of the average discrepancy between (i) the pension being received by police officers as of 28 February 2024 and (ii) the pension police officers will be entitled to once the McCloud remedy and associated public service pension changes are fully implemented.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	16194
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. The police pension schemes are locally administered by each police force, and the Home Office does not hold record level information.</p><p>Through the McCloud remedy, each eligible pension scheme member will make a personal choice, taking into account their own circumstances. Given this individual choice and associated complexities, it is not possible to assess the average impact for a member.</p><p>The 2015 police pension scheme is one of the most valuable available in the UK: backed by the taxpayer; index-linked; and offering guaranteed benefits on retirement, comparing very favourably to the typical private sector scheme.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/03/2024 16:30:53 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1692379

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2024 to Question 14908 on Police: Wales, whether his Department has provided additional funding to each police force in Wales to implement the redesigned crown logo.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	16195
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2024 answer text <p>Cabinet Office guidance advises organisations who want to update their branding to incorporate the redesigned Royal Crown to consider taking a low-cost approach and to avoid wastage wherever possible.</p><p>Implementation of items such as digital branding can be carried out without significant cost and there is no requirement to update physical items which should only be changed where necessary or at no or at low cost.</p><p>Based on the advice in this guidance the Home Office has not provided any additional funding to police forces.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/03/2024 16:29:19 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1692466

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2024
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Driving Tests
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the availability of car driving test slots.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	16220
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2024 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) main priority is to reduce car practical driving test waiting times, whilst upholding road safety standards.</p><p> </p><p>As of 26 February 2024, there were 518,517 car practical driving tests booked, and 136,868 driving tests available within the 24-week booking window.</p><p> </p><p>The DVSA has deployed all eligible managers and administrative staff back on the front line to do driving tests from the beginning of October until the end of March, which will create around 150,000 additional test slots.</p><p> </p><p>To further increase the number of available test slots, it is conducting tests outside of regular hours, including at weekends and on public holidays, and buying back annual leave from driving examiners.</p><p> </p><p>Since April 2021, measures put in place by the DVSA to reduce waiting times for its customers, together with the ongoing recruitment of driving examiners, is creating on average over 48,300 extra car test slots each month.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 04/03/2024 13:38:02 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts