Police: Pensions

(asked on 7th February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

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.


Answered by
Nick Hurd Portrait
Nick Hurd
This question was answered on 20th February 2018

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.

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.

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