Question follow-through · 129920
NHS: Redundancy Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has issued guidance to NHS employers on the relationship between partial retirement and entitlement to contractual redundancy payments.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 27 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2026 · 2 calendar days after tabling
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- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
27 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has issued guidance to NHS employers on the relationship between partial retirement and entitlement to contractual redundancy payments.
29 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2026
Answer published
Contractual redundancy terms are set out in the Agenda for Change NHS terms and conditions of service handbook under section 16, more specifically paragraph 16.6, for National Health Service staff who are on Agenda for Change contracts in England or those...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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