Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many surviving spouses of teachers who retired or died prior to 1 January 2007 have lost their entitlement to their late spouse's pension on remarrying.

Data on the cessation of spouses’ pensions are not collated centrally, and the records of all individual members would need to be investigated to determine how many spouses’ pensions have ceased as a result of the surviving spouse having remarried. This could only be done at disproportionate cost.