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date	13/10/2014
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, if she will estimate the cost to the public purse of treating pensions for police widows and widowers in England and Scotland in the same way as those in Northern Ireland in respect of remarriage.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Cathy Jamieson
uin	210104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2014 answer text <p>Information is not available for each of the last 10 years. Data collected for the police pension scheme valuation recorded 131 cessations of spouse pensions due to remarriages over the period 2008-12.<br><br>A small number of letters have been received in the Home Office from widows of police officers on this issue.<br><br>Under the 1987 Police Pension Scheme, in common with most other public service pension schemes of that time, benefits cease to be payable where a widow or widower remarries or cohabits with another partner. The rules were changed in 2006 for the 2006 Police Pension Scheme which was costed to allow for these benefits, and there are no proposals to apply these changes to the 1987 scheme in England and Wales. The police pension scheme in Scotland is a matter for the Scottish Government.<br><br>As part of the police pension scheme valuation as at 2012 the scheme actuary estimated that ignoring cessation on remarriage for current and future widows would increase the schemes’ liabilities in England and Wales by around £50 million based on recent rates of remarriage, not including the cost of reinstating pensions of widows who have already remarried.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 210101 210102 210103 question first answered 16/10/2014 11:05:42 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson

92871

registered interest
date	13/10/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests: Ayrshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will assess the merits of establishing a driving test centre at the site of the current HGV testing centre in Kilmarnock.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Cathy Jamieson
uin	210108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2014 answer text <p>Practical driving test candidates in Kilmarnock currently have access to a test centre at Irvine 6.5 miles or 12 minutes away. Adding an additional test centre location at Kilmarnock Goods Vehicle Testing Station would not provide any significant improvement in service delivery but would create additional operating costs which would ultimately be passed on to DVSA customers.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 16/10/2014 11:15:39 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson

92873

registered interest
date	13/10/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests: Ayrshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of people who undertook driving tests at the test centre in (a) Irvine and (b) Cumnock since the closure of the Kilmarnock driving test centre ordinarily reside in Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Cathy Jamieson
uin	210106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2014 answer text <p>The proportion of people ordinarily residing in Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituencies who undertook driving tests at the test centre in (a) Irvine and (b) Cumnock since the closure of the Kilmarnock driving test centre is reflected in the appended table. The proportion for Irvine is 28.5%. The proportion for Cumnock is 45%.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 16/10/2014 13:01:05 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry attachment 1 file name 210106 - table.xls title Driving Test Table
tabling member	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson