Question follow-through · 115765

NHS: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of giving the NHS Staff Council a mandate to negotiate NHS partial retirement and statutory redundancy payments with trade unio

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
24 Feb 2026
Target answer date
5 Mar 2026
Answer
18 Mar 2026 · 22 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 24 Feb 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of giving the NHS Staff Council a mandate to negotiate NHS partial retirement and statutory redundancy payments with trade unio

  2. 5 Mar 2026

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  3. 18 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    This specific assessment has not been made.Partial retirement does not mean that National Health Service staff are ineligible for redundancy payments. However, taking partial retirement may change the way in which contractual redundancy payments are calcu...

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