Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 115765
NHS: Redundancy Pay
Tabled: 24 February 2026
Answered: 18 March 2026
Named DayQuestion
Michael Wheeler
Labour — Worsley 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 SmythThis 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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