§ Mr. HansonTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make it his policy to approve the necessary staff transfer order where there is a local agreement to the effect that all local government staff within a locally agreed area would transfer to a new authority following local government reorganisation.
§ Mr. Gwilyn JonesThat already is my policy.
I wrote to the Staff Commission for Wales on 20 January as follows:
Once a group of authorities in a particular area has agreed which staff should be transferred to them, [the Secretary of State] would be prepared to give effect to the decision in the staff transfer order to be made under section 42 of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994.