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448947

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Banks: Redundancy Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons Bradford and Bingley, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Northern Rock as publicly-funded banks are exempted from the public sector exit payments cap in the provisions of the Enterprise Bill.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	24869
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government’s partial ownership of Bradford and Bingley, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Northern Rock as is a temporary measure following the financial crisis and they will be returned to the private sector in due course. The Government believes this is fundamentally different to public sector bodies that receive ongoing funding from the taxpayer.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 05/02/2016 14:15:14 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

448587

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Redundancy Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will consult public sector organisations which would be affected by the proposed exit payment cap on the technical considerations of that cap.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	24842
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government maintains that £95,000 is a significant amount of money for anyone to be receiving for an exit, while the large majority of exit payments are already significantly below the level of the cap. Voluntary redundancy and workforce restructuring is not contingent upon access to six-figure exit payments. As such, we do not expect the cap to have a widespread impact on the take-up of voluntary redundancy, and believe the cap will enable public sector employers to retain the tools to effectively make organisational changes to their workforce whilst offering those made redundant generous provisions for loss of employment.</p><p> </p><p>The consultation on the public sector exit payment cap ran from 31 July to 27 August 2015, and received over 4000 responses. These responses included representations from public sector organisations. The Government will publish draft regulations and invite comment on them in due course.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 24751 question first answered 05/02/2016 14:03:27 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

448572

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Redundancy Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a timescale for the introduction of the proposed exit payment cap for the public sector.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	24844
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2016 answer text <p>The public sector exit payment cap will come into effect at a date after the Enterprise Bill has received Royal Assent. The Enterprise Bill is currently expected to receive Royal Assent by May 2016. A set of secondary regulations which will give effect to the public sector exit payment cap are currently expected to come into force during autumn 2016.</p><p> </p><p>In the response to the consultation the Government stated that ‘the government would request Legislative Consent Motions from the Devolved Administrations where appropriate, however it would be for the Devolved Administrations to decide the approach they wish to take to this measure.’</p><p> </p><p>On 7 December 2015 the Northern Ireland Assembly declined to agree a Legislative Consent Motion. Subsequently, no provisions relating to Northern Ireland are included in the clauses relating to exit payments.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 24748 24749 question first answered 05/02/2016 14:00:48 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

448582

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Redundancy Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of the proposed public sector exit payments cap on public sector employers' flexibility to restructure their workforce.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	24751
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government maintains that £95,000 is a significant amount of money for anyone to be receiving for an exit, while the large majority of exit payments are already significantly below the level of the cap. Voluntary redundancy and workforce restructuring is not contingent upon access to six-figure exit payments. As such, we do not expect the cap to have a widespread impact on the take-up of voluntary redundancy, and believe the cap will enable public sector employers to retain the tools to effectively make organisational changes to their workforce whilst offering those made redundant generous provisions for loss of employment.</p><p> </p><p>The consultation on the public sector exit payment cap ran from 31 July to 27 August 2015, and received over 4000 responses. These responses included representations from public sector organisations. The Government will publish draft regulations and invite comment on them in due course.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 24842 question first answered 05/02/2016 14:03:27 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

448577

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Redundancy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of public sector workers who (a) have been made redundant in the last five years and (b) will be made redundant in the next five years.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	24788
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2016 answer text <p>The information requested on the number of public sector workers who have been made redundant in the past is available in the publication “Whole of Government Accounts”.The figures for 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14 are published in Note 7 of the relevant Whole of Government Accounts under the section titled ‘Civil Service and Other Compensation Schemes- Exit Packages’ available on the following website: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/whole-of-government-accounts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/whole-of-government-accounts</a></p><p> </p><p>The Government does not forecast redundancy figures. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) publishes forecast changes in general government employment. These can be found in Table 1.12 of the Economic and Fiscal Outlook, Supplementary Tables here:</p><p><a href="http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/efo/economic-and-fiscal-outlook-november-2015/" target="_blank">http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/efo/economic-and-fiscal-outlook-november-2015/</a></p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 05/02/2016 14:08:51 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

448580

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Redundancy Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether any of the devolved administrations have refused to consent to the provisions dealing with public sector exit payments contained within the Enterprise Bill.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	24749
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2016 answer text <p>The public sector exit payment cap will come into effect at a date after the Enterprise Bill has received Royal Assent. The Enterprise Bill is currently expected to receive Royal Assent by May 2016. A set of secondary regulations which will give effect to the public sector exit payment cap are currently expected to come into force during autumn 2016.</p><p> </p><p>In the response to the consultation the Government stated that ‘the government would request Legislative Consent Motions from the Devolved Administrations where appropriate, however it would be for the Devolved Administrations to decide the approach they wish to take to this measure.’</p><p> </p><p>On 7 December 2015 the Northern Ireland Assembly declined to agree a Legislative Consent Motion. Subsequently, no provisions relating to Northern Ireland are included in the clauses relating to exit payments.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 24748 24844 question first answered 05/02/2016 14:00:48 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

448579

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Redundancy Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department will agree to Legislative Consent Motions to the devolved government on the issue of public sector exit payments.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	24748
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2016 answer text <p>The public sector exit payment cap will come into effect at a date after the Enterprise Bill has received Royal Assent. The Enterprise Bill is currently expected to receive Royal Assent by May 2016. A set of secondary regulations which will give effect to the public sector exit payment cap are currently expected to come into force during autumn 2016.</p><p> </p><p>In the response to the consultation the Government stated that ‘the government would request Legislative Consent Motions from the Devolved Administrations where appropriate, however it would be for the Devolved Administrations to decide the approach they wish to take to this measure.’</p><p> </p><p>On 7 December 2015 the Northern Ireland Assembly declined to agree a Legislative Consent Motion. Subsequently, no provisions relating to Northern Ireland are included in the clauses relating to exit payments.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 24749 24844 question first answered 05/02/2016 14:00:48 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan