Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the pension liabilities of West Midlands Police; what plans he has to provide West Midlands police with additional funding to meet that liability; and if he will make a statement.

We are assessing the implications of changes to the public service pensions discount rate on all forces, including West Midlands Police. 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.