Motion · S4M-12909 · 7 Apr 2015
Benefits for Survivors of Police Officers Killed on Duty
The motion
That the Parliament welcomes the announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 2015 budget that the UK Government will ensure that all widows, widowers and civil partners of police officers and firefighters who are killed on duty will no longer lose their survivor benefits if they remarry, cohabit or form a civil partnership; understands that this practice ended for survivors under the post-2006 New Police Pension Scheme but created an inequality for those on previous schemes; notes the extension of survivor benefits and the reinstatement of lost benefits in these circumstances announced by the Northern Ireland Department of Justice in June 2014; commends the Police Federation, the Scottish Police Federation, Care of Police Survivors and other organisations for their campaigning on what it considers this important issue affecting people in Ayr and across the country, and notes calls for the Scottish Government to ensure that these changes are implemented in Scotland.
Supporters (17)
- Jackson Carlaw 8 Apr 2015
- Alex Fergusson 8 Apr 2015
- Hanzala Malik 8 Apr 2015
- Jamie McGrigor 8 Apr 2015
- Anne McTaggart 8 Apr 2015
- Nanette Milne 8 Apr 2015
- Graeme Pearson 8 Apr 2015
- Liz Smith 8 Apr 2015
- Cameron Buchanan 9 Apr 2015
- Nigel Don 9 Apr 2015
- Margaret Mitchell 9 Apr 2015
- Murdo Fraser Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party 13 Apr 2015
- Linda Fabiani 20 Apr 2015
- Colin Beattie Scottish National Party 21 Apr 2015
- Sandra White 21 Apr 2015
- Christine Grahame 28 Apr 2015
- Annabel Goldie 29 Apr 2015
Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.