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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

851691

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2018
	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 assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending police pensions to life-long payments in the event of an officer's death.
	tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
	tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
	uin	130454
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>Since 6 April 2006, all new police officers have had lifelong survivor benefits as part of their occupational pension scheme benefits.</p><p>On 18 January 2016, the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 and the Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006 were amended to allow widows, widowers and civil partners of police officers in England and Wales who have died on duty and who qualified for a survivor pension after 1 April 2015 to continue to receive their survivors’ benefits for life.</p><p>There are no plans to make any further changes to survivor benefits for police pension schemes.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 06/03/2018 19:38:23 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

457572

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2016
	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, whether she plans to establish equality in pension provision for surviving spouses of police officers across the different countries of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Walsall South
	tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
	uin	29644
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>As policing is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland and Scotland, the Northern Ireland Executive and the Scottish Government are responsible for the design and funding of police pensions in those parts of the United Kingdom.</p><p>On 18 January 2016, the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 and the Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006 were amended to allow widows, widowers and civil partners of police officers in England and Wales who have died on duty and who qualified for a survivor pension after 1 April 2015 to continue to receive their survivors’ benefits for life. There are currently no plans to change this policy in England and Wales.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/03/2016 15:47:33 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

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

1010381

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2018
	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 recent discussions he has had with Police and Crime Commissioners on the effect on police budgets of additional pension costs.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	192719
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>We are assessing the implications of changes to the public service pensions discount rate on police forces and are working with the police and the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners to determine how best to manage these impacts. The Budget made clear that part of these costs will be met from the Treasury Reserve in 2019/20.</p><p>As the Chancellor set out in his speech, the Home Secretary will review police spending power ahead of the 2019/20 provisional police funding settlement which is expected to be published next month.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 22/11/2018 14:21:47 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1010573

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2018
	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 guidance he has given to Police and Crime Commissioners on the use of (a) reserves and (b) deficit budgets for the purposes of providing for pension costs.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	193363
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office has established a working group with representatives of Police and Crime Commissioners and forces to determine the best way to manage the potential impact of increased pensions costs</p><p>The Budget made clear that part of these costs will be met from the Treasury Reserve in 2019/20. As the Chancellor set out in his speech, the Home Secretary will review police spending power ahead of the 2019/20 provisional police funding settlement which is expected to be published next month</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 07/03/2019 17:59:59 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

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

824601

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2018
	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 an assessment of the potential merits of police widows and widowers retaining their right to a pension for life in the event of their re-marriage or co-habitation.
	tabling member constituency	St Helens North
	tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
	uin	123402
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>Survivors of officers who were members of the 2006 and 2015 police pension schemes are, since 2006, paid survivor pensions for life.</p><p>On 18 January 2016, the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 and the Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006 were amended to allow widows, widowers and civil partners of police officers in England and Wales who have died on duty and who qualified for a survivor pension after 1 April 2015 to continue to receive their survivors’ benefits for life. Successive governments have been clear that we have a general presumption against making retrospective changes to public service pension schemes. However the Government believes that the arguments for making this change in respect of police officers who died on duty are sufficiently compelling to allow a limited exception in this case.</p><p>There are no plans to make any further changes to survivor benefits for police pension schemes.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 24/01/2018 15:51:27 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

838623

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2018
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2018 to Question 123402, how many people are in receipt of a survivors' pension from the police pension scheme 1987; and how many people in receipt of a survivors' pension from that scheme have surrendered that pension upon remarriage or cohabitation.
	tabling member constituency	St Helens North
	tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
	uin	127443
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold information on the number of survivors’ pensions being paid from the 1987 police pension scheme or the number of survivors’ pensions surrendered on remarriage or cohabitation. The information is held by each Police Pension Authority.</p><p>We have estimated with the Government’s Actuary’s Department, by using historical actuarial data, that the total cost of retaining benefits for all police survivors would increase the police scheme liabilities by around £144m. It is also estimated that retaining benefits for all police survivors, including reinstatement of pensions already surrendered, would increase the police scheme liabilities to around £198m. No annual estimate is available.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 127445 question first answered 20/02/2018 17:00:02 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn