§ Mr. Pendryasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what advice he has given to health authorities concerning taking into account the compensation element of early retirement expenditure and the net costs of redundancy payments when assessing competitive tenders.
§ Mr. HayhoeAdvice on this matter is contained in the circular on competitive tendering HC(83)18, a copy of which is in the Library. I am considering whether further advice is necessary.
§ Mr. Pendryasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the total number by authority of (a) early retirements and (b) redundancies resulting from competitive tendering; and what are the numbers by health authorities and boards in the regional control totals.
§ Mr. HayhoeInformation held centrally about redundancies is limited to those aged 50 or over who also attract early payment of superannuation benefits. The information set out in the table relates to(a) those voluntarily retiring for the avoidance of their own or another's redundancy, and (b) those compulsorily redundant who are also entitled to superannuation benefits, resulting from competitive tendering. The figures are for the period 1 April 1985 to 30 November 1985 and the provisional regional control totals are for the year ending 31 March 1986. The control totals are subject to revision in January in the light of later information about redundancies.
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Region and District Premature retirement Redundancy Control total Northern North Tees 0 1 — South Cumbria 0 4 — Northumberland 5 0 — Newcastle 0 2 — South Tyneside 4 0 — 9 7 230 Yorkshire Regional Employees 0 2 — East Yorkshire 5 5 — Hull 0 19 — Scunthorpe 5 0 — York 1 4 — Scarborough 5 0 — Harrogate 0 8 — Bradford 10 6 — Calderdale 28 7 — Huddersfield 0 3 — Leeds Eastern 0 1 — Leeds Western 0 13 — 54 68 260 Trent North Derbyshire 1 2 — North Lincolnshire 2 0 — South Lincolnshire 0 2 — Nottingham 1 0 — Barnsley 0 1 — 4 5 270 East Anglian Norwich 0 42 — Great Yarmouth and Waveney 3 0 — West Suffolk 0 8 — 3 50 120 North West Thames South Bedfordshire 0 2 — Hounslow and Spelthorne 0 29 — Ealing 0 12 — Paddington 0 42 — Victoria 0 64 — 0 149 570 North East Thames Regional Employees 0 2 — Mid Essex 6 4 — North East Essex 1 0 — Southend 1 0 — Waltham Forest 22 0 — Tower Hamlets 1 0 — 31 6 260 South East Thames South East Kent 1 0 — Canterbury and Thanet 30 33 — Bromley 0 25 — 31 58 280 South West Thames North West Surrey 0 9 — Kingston and Esher 13 0 — Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 0 29 — 432W
Region and District Premature retirement Redundancy Control total Merton and Sutton 0 6 — Wandsworth 19 0 — Chichester 0 9 — Worthing 0 9 — Croydon 0 2 — East Surrey 5 5 — 37 69 400 Wessex Regional Employees 0 1 — East Dorset 0 3 — Southampton and South West Hampshire 0 1 — Winchester 0 1 — Isle of Wight 0 1 — 0 7 130 Oxford Kettering 3 0 — Oxfordshire 0 36 — Milton Keynes 0 2 — 3 38 100 South Western North Devon 0 2 — Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 10 7 — Bristol and Western 0 1 — Frenchay 0 13 — Southmead 0 2 — Somerset 0 10 — 10 35 150 West Midlands Dudley 0 1 — Herefordshire 0 1 — Bromsgrove and Redditch 1 0 — North Warwickshire 0 2 — South Warwickshire 7 0 — Rugby 3 0 — South East Staffordshire 4 3 — Solihull 0 3 — East Birmingham 0 15 — Central Birmingham 0 1 — 15 26 350 Mersey Chester 0 3 — Crewe 7 0 — Macclesfield 6 0 — Warrington 4 1 — North Sefton 0 1 — South Sefton 0 2 — 17 7 310 North Western Rochdale 0 1 — Bury 0 3 — 0 4 150 Special Health Authorities National Heart and Chest Hospital 4 0 — Royal Marsden Hospital 0 8 —
Region and District Premature retirement Redundancy Control total — — — 4 8 47