§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what responsibility his Department has assumed for redundancy payments to civil servants who moved from his Department to TICC skill centres, on that company having gone bankrupt in August.
Mr. JacksonThe Department met the commitments it made to former staff to oblige purchasers of skill centres to396W write into staff's new employment contracts an entitlement to redundancy payments at civil service rates. This is now a matter between the employees, the company and its liquidators, although I do recognise the difficult position of former civil servants and am giving the issue serious consideration.