Good evening folks, Following a meeting with the Police Federation of England and Wales on January 11th, an audit of the campaign is to be carried out with the federation's assistance; this is being done with a view to formulating a plan of action for the future of the campaign. In the meantime questions are still being asked on our behalf: Conor McGinn – Labour St Helens North "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of police widows and widowers retaining their right to a pension for life in the event of their re-marriage or cohabitation." Nick Hurd – The Minister of State Home Department "Survivors of officers who were members of the 2006 and 2015 police pension schemes are, since 2006, paid survivor pensions for life. On January 18th 2016, the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 and the Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006 were amended to allow widows, widowers and civil partners of police officers in England and Wales who have died on duty and who qualified for a survivor pension after 1st April 2015 to continue to receive their survivors' benefits for life. Successive governments have been clear that we have a general presumption against making retrospective changes to public service pension schemes. However the Government believes that the arguments for making this change in respect of police officers who died on duty are sufficiently compelling to allow a limited exception in this case. There are no plans to make any further changes to survivor benefits for police pension schemes." Citation: HC 24 January 2018 Despite the well worn and frustratingly negative reply, it is questions such as this that keep us on the political agenda. I shall of course keep you updated regarding the results of the audit and future plans for our campaign. For newcomers to the campaign my email address is CathrynHall@outlook.com Onward and Upward, Cathryn