Astra Training Services (Hansard, 4 July 1991)

HC Deb 04 July 1991 vol 194 c202W 202W

§ Mr. Cryer
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what assessment he has made of whether Astra Training Services Ltd. has carried out all its statutory obligations and formal undertakings to trainees and employees; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Jackson
At the point of sale the Government met their undertakings to ensure that the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 applied to former civil servants who transferred to the private sector, including Astra and that pension arrangements were satisfactorily covered. Astra Training Services Ltd. is now a private company and it, and not the Government, is responsible for such statutory or other obligations that fall on it.