To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what arrangements are in place to allow civil servants facing redundancy in one Government Department to transfer to another; and if she will make a statement. (111655)

The Government have put in place a common framework to support Departments, in their handling of staff facing redundancy to maximise redeployment opportunities and to minimise recourse to compulsory redundancies. In support of this process, a vacancy handling database has been developed to give affected staff priority access to vacancies across other Government Departments.