Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 16 November 2010.
Danny Alexander
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury
2:30,
16 November 2010
I have to say that that sounds like rather an overestimate, but the hon. Lady is right to say that employers are spelling out their own plans for redundancies and for managing their work force in an appropriate way. I recognise that many staff will be very concerned about that, but I believe that it is right that they hear about specific plans from their own management, rather than draw conclusions from higher level aggregate numbers.