§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for Education how much his Department spent on legal advice regarding the implications of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 for the market-testing programme.
§ Mr. BoswellThe Department has incurred no expenditure on this matter additional to the normal cost of its own legal branch. It is not possible to identify separately the cost of advice provided by in-house legal advisers on particular issues such as the TUPE regulations.