Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of what it would have cost to have continued paying police widows' pensions to those widows or widowers who lost their serving husbands or wives between 1987 and 2006, before officers had the option to opt in to a scheme which permitted payments to continue to a surviving spouse on remarriage.

No such estimate has been made. The police pension schemes are administered locally by police forces, so data on this specific issue is not held centrally.