§ Lord Wedgwoodasked the Chairman of Committees:
What consideration has been given to providing Peers who cease to be Members of the House with financial assistance to enable them to make redundancy payments to existing personal staff engaged exclusively to provide secretarial and 101WA research assistance in the discharge of parliamentary duties; and [HL4452]
What guidance he can provide to Peers who are obliged to make staff redundant, on ceasing to be Members of the House, so that statutory procedures are adhered to. [HL4453]
§ The Chairman of Committees (Lord Boston of Faversham)Peers' secretaries and research assistants are employed by individual Peers and not by the House. No consideration is therefore being given to providing financial assistance to Peers to enable any redundancy payments to be made; nor is it the House's responsibility to offer guidance on redundancy procedures.