PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Police: Pensions (14 November 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the (a) additional cost to police forces in 2019-20 of employer contributions to the police pension scheme arising from the reduction in the public sector pension scheme discount rate confirmed in Budget 2018 and (b) additional grant to police forces to contribute towards those costs.

Asked by:
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)

We are assessing the implications of changes to the public service pensions discount rate change announced in Budget 2018 on all forces.

The Budget made clear that part of these costs will be met from the Treasury Reserve in 2019/20. As the Chancellor set out in his speech, the Home Secretary will review police spending power ahead of the provisional police funding settlement for 2019/20 to be published next month.

Answered by:
Mr Nick Hurd (Conservative)
23 November 2018