§ Mr. Alex CarlileTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if the Treasury-funded redundancy package for the Prison Service will be extended beyond 27 March 1997; and if he will make a statement. [26673]
§ Miss WiddecombeResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Richard Tilt to Mr. Alex Carlile, dated 29 April 1996:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the Treasury-funded redundancy package for the Prison Service being extended beyond 27 March 1997.The White Paper "The Civil Service—Continuity and Change" announced that from 1 October 1994 to 31 March 1997, 80 per cent of the cost of early departures—whether voluntary or compulsory—would be funded from the central Civil Service Superannuation Vote. The scheme is administered by the Office for Public Service and applies across the Civil Service. There are currently no plans for the scheme to be extended beyond March 1997.