Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Written Statement of 6 September 2018 on quadrennial valuations of the public service pension schemes, HCWS 945 when his Department was first made aware of the full cost to policing of those changes.

The Home Office has regular discussions with Treasury about public sector pensions policy, and considers the possible impact of a range of policy options. Following HM Treasury’s announcement on 6 September 2018, the Home Office commissioned the Government Actuary’s Department to carry out a full analysis of the impact for police forces based on the revised Directions published by HM Treasury.