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tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
answering dept id	53
uin	220281

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1059770

registered interest

date

12/02/2019

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Cabinet Office

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Civil Servants: Pensions

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25259

	pref label	House of Commons

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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to change the premium deduction in the (a) widows, (b) widowers and (c) civil partners pension provisions of the 1972 Section of the Civil Service pension arrangement so that when a member remains (i) unmarried or (ii) not in a civil partnership their surviving children receive the premium deduction refund.

tabling member constituency

Motherwell and Wishaw

tabling member printed

Marion Fellows

uin

220281

answer

is ministerial correction

date of answer

18/02/2019

answer text

The premium deduction is there to protect the Civil Service Pension Scheme against the specific risk of a member marrying or entering a civil partnership after retiring and then pre-deceasing their spouse/civil partner. The amount of the premium is set at a level that takes account of the likelihood of this happening. If the premium were to be repaid to the member’s estate should they subsequently die without marrying or entering a civil partnership, the amount of the premium would need to be significantly higher as it would only be retained by the scheme in circumstances where a spouse/civil partner’s pension was payable. The Government does not consider that a change to the current arrangements is justified.

answering member constituency

Hertsmere

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Oliver Dowden

question first answered

18/02/2019 14:23:33

answering member

4441

	label	Biography information for Oliver Dowden

tabling member

4440

	label	Biography information for Marion Fellows