Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 75499

Employment Tribunals Service: Enforcement

Tabled: 5 September 2025
Answered: 11 September 2025
Named Day

Question

Darren Paffey

LabourSouthampton Itchen

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recourse is available in situations where an employment tribunal award has been made but cannot be enforced because the company is no longer trading and has not gone into formal insolvency.

Answer

Kate Dearden
In the absence of any formal insolvency proceedings, the Redundancy Payment Service, which is part of the Insolvency Service, can pay redundancy pay awarded by the Employment Tribunal to a former employee.It is unable to consider payment of any other elem...

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