Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to fund the cost of (a) a fire service pensions remedy and (b) the second options exercise for part-time workers in fire services; and if she will make a statement.

The proposed remedies in both instances will ensure that affected firefighters and former firefighters will be placed in the correct position in respect of their pension entitlement and receive their full pension benefits.

Decisions on central government funding relating to these remedies will be subject to future discussions between The Treasury, the Home Office and Local Government.