HC Deb 18 October 1993 vol 230 c176W
Mr. McAllion

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list all those services or functions contracted out in her Department and agencies, since November 1991, in which the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 were not applied.

Mr. Jack

The application of TUPE depends on the nature of the work awarded and the contractors' own proposals for carrying out the work.

Since publication of the White Paper "Competing for Quality, Buying Better Public Services", the Department's market-testing programme has included the activities listed which have been contracted out under contractual arrangements which did not need to incorporate the 1981 regulations:

  • Building and Estates Management (Part)
  • General Recruitment (Up to Grade 7)
  • Library Services (Books and Journals)
  • Royal Navy Surface Surveillance (Fisheries Protection Contract)
  • Relocation Work (Central Science Laboratory)

Information relating to services or functions which are not on the Department's market-testing programme but which have been contracted out since November 1991 cannot be obtained except at disproportionate cost.

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