Question follow-through · 106416
NHS: Redundancy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of fragmented recognition of service across different NHS sectors on long-serving NHS staff during redundancy processes.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 22 Jan 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of fragmented recognition of service across different NHS sectors on long-serving NHS staff during redundancy processes.
20 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Department has not made an assessment of how fragmented recognition of service across different National Health Service sectors might affect long-serving NHS staff who face redundancy.Redundancy entitlements for NHS staff are determined by Section 16 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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