§ Mr. McAllionTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list all those services or functions contracted out in his Department and agencies, since November 1991, in which the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 were not applied.
§ Mr. HagueWhether or not TUPE applies in any particular case will depend on the nature of the work awarded and the contractor's proposals for carrying the work out.
The following services have been contracted out since November 1991 without application of the TUPE regulations:
- Business information
- Catering
- Casual hire
- Child care
- Cleaning/window cleaning
- Communications audit
- Conference
- Consultancy
- Courier/parcel services
- Closed circuit television
- Estates maintenance
- Facilities management
- Gas purchases
- Invalid car parts distributors
- Medical
- Messenger
- Porterage
- Postal
- Removals/relocation
- Secretarial
- Security
- Training
- Travel