Question follow-through · 3688
Department for Education: Redundancy
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will ensure no compulsory redundancies among staff who cannot relocate from her Department's offices which are closing.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 20 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 15 Jun 2026 · 26 calendar days after tabling
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- Universities: Conditions of Employment · 29 May 2026
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will ensure no compulsory redundancies among staff who cannot relocate from her Department's offices which are closing.
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jun 2026
Answer published
The department is committed to supporting colleagues affected by the closure of six office locations and have developed a package of mitigations to support those affected, resulting in the majority of colleagues accepting moves to one of our remaining eig...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Universities: Conditions of Employment
29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has issued guidance to universities on the Employment Rights Act; and what steps she is taking to prevent university employers engaging in fire and rehire practices before January 2027.
Schools: Drinking Water
29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring schools to provide easy access to free drinking water.