asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will take steps to amend the relevant fire service pensions regulations to remove anomalies by enabling the retrospective application of transfers of pensionable service in respect of personnel who have served with a United Kingdom local authority fire brigade firstly in Northern Ireland and then transferred to another local authority fire brigade in England in unbroken service.

No. There are already appropriate arrangements for the transfer of pension rights between fire brigades in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with retrospective application to 1948.