§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what assumption he made, in his estimate of savings on staff costs through local government reorganisation, on the applicability of the acquired rights directive to the transfer of staff to the proposed new local authorities.
§ Mr. StewartThe question of whether or not the acquired rights directive applies to transfers of staff to the proposed new local authorities does not have implications for the Government's estimates of the number of posts that will be saved as a result of local government reorganisation.