  This letter follows a recent claim that the Hipparcos parallax for Polaris
could be too small by 2.5 mas. It examines in detail the Hipparcos epoch
astrometric data for Polaris, as well as the viability of other observations
that were put forward to support a larger parallax. The Hipparcos determination
of the Polaris parallax is shown to be sufficiently robust to fully exclude a
significantly larger parallax, and there is no observational support from other
observations, such as a supposed presence of a cluster, either.
