Department for Work and Pensions: Redundancy

Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 26 October 2017.

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Photo of Lesley Laird Lesley Laird Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of staff in his Department who will be made redundant (a) voluntarily and (b) compulsorily as a result of office closures across the Department's estate.

Photo of Damian Hinds Damian Hinds The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions

Through changes to our estate to reduce roughly 30% of the space we currently occupy we have sought to minimise the impact on employees wherever possible.

As a result of our plans around 800 employees have been designated at as at risk of redundancy. Through redeployment activity we have identified alternative roles for around 350 of those at risk and currently the number remaining at risk of redundancy is around 450. We are continuing redeployment activity and therefore the number at risk may still reduce further. Offers of voluntary redundancy will be made to those remaining at risk of redundancy through November 2017. It is not possible to determine numbers who may be at risk of compulsory redundancy until voluntary offers have been made and accepted or declined.

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