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date	19/04/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that staff and trade unions will be effectively consulted at each stage during the process of further education bodies becoming subsidiaries to higher education institutions.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
uin	71388
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>In order to become a subsidiary company of a higher education institution, a further education corporation would have to dissolve and the corporation would be required to consult publicly on proposals for dissolution and to take account of the views of those consulted.[1]</p><p>It would be for the individual corporations involved to satisfy themselves as to whether TUPE might apply where staff were transferring from a college to a subsidiary company and if so, to comply with the relevant requirements including those in respect of consultation with staff representatives.[2]</p><p> </p><p>[1] Section 27 of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/13/section/27" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/13/section/27</a> and regulations 3 and 4 of the Further Education Corporations (Publication of Proposals) (England) Regulations 2012 <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1157/regulation/3/made" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1157/regulation/3/made</a></p><p>[2] TUPE guidance is at <a href="http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1655" target="_blank">http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1655</a></p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 26/04/2017 15:50:09 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

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registered interest
date	19/04/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether support staff of further education bodies, approved to become subsidiaries to high education institutions, will continue to have access to their local government pension scheme.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
uin	71387
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>Yes, staff employed by further education corporations who are eligible for the LGPS will continue to be so if the further education body becomes a subsidiary company of a higher education institution and they are designated by their employer (either individually or on the basis that they belong to a group of employees designated) as being eligible for the LGPS.</p><p>[1] This is set out in Regulation 3 and Part 2 of Schedule 2 of the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 2013 <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2356/contents/made" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2356/contents/made</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 26/04/2017 15:51:31 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden