Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 115765

NHS: Redundancy Pay

Tabled: 24 February 2026
Answered: 18 March 2026
Named Day

Question

Michael Wheeler

LabourWorsley and Eccles

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of giving the NHS Staff Council a mandate to negotiate NHS partial retirement and statutory redundancy payments with trade unio

Answer

Karin Smyth
This specific assessment has not been made.Partial retirement does not mean that National Health Service staff are ineligible for redundancy payments. However, taking partial retirement may change the way in which contractual redundancy payments are calcu...

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