§ Mr. William Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will take steps to ensure that redundancy terms pertaining to new towns staff are not less favourable than those applied to local authority staff as a result of regional reorganisation.
§ Mr. John SilkinIf my hon. Friend is referring to the New Towns (Amendment) Bill, which relates to England and Wales only, the answer is that the regulations provided for in Clause 12(4) will authorise the usual form of compensation18W made available to those who suffer loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments because of statutory reorganisation. It is proposed to base the terms on those which were provided for local government reorganisation under Section 259 of the Local Government Act 1972, for England and Wales, and under Section 219 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, for Scotland.