HC Deb 19 June 1995 vol 262 cc77-8W
Mr. Milburn

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his answer of 2 May,Official Report, column 139, if he will provide comparable details of civil service early retirement packages on grounds of inefficiency. [29294]

Mr. Redwood

Inefficiency is a ground for dismissal. An immediate lump sum payment of up to two years' salary may be made where a Department judges payment of compensation to be appropriate. Where compensation is agreed and the person dismissed is over age 55, this may be forgone in favour of immediate payment of the accrued superannuation benefits which would otherwise be preserved for payment at retiring ages. Three people have left the Welsh Office on inefficiency grounds during the last five years. Details are as follows:

Compensation lump sum
£
1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95
6,926 4,162
1,683